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Russia Arms Syria With Powerful Ballistic Missiles
Sunday, December 9, 2012 9:37
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Hours after NATO agreed on Tuesday to send Patriot missiles to Turkey because of the crisis in Syria, Russia delivered its first shipment of Iskander missiles to Syria.
The superior Iskander can travel at hypersonic speed of over 1.3 miles per second (Mach 6-7) and has a range of over 280 miles with pinpoint accuracy of destroying targets with its 1,500-pound warhead, a nightmare for any missile defense system.
According to Mashregh, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard media outlet, Russia had warned Turkey not to escalate the situation, but with Turkey’s request for Patriot missiles, it delivered its first shipment of Iskanders to Syria.
Reporting today, Mashregh said the handover occurred when Russian naval logistic vessels docked at Tartus in Syria.
If true, this will bolster Assad amongst rumors he may be planning to flee Damascus to hold out in the Alawite mountains on the Med. Sea coast. The loss of Syria to the west would then put pressure on Iran, if Iran fell then I would assume the pressure would then rest on Pakistan. Russia and China are not going to let their allies fall, they are being encircled by western powers and their pacific allies. Don’t be surprised to see them lash out and called the bad guys in american media but the truth is is that we did it to ourselves. We are the empire, we are the bad guys. Empire’s are never the good guys. -Mort
America are hell bent on destroying the world. They need to grow up. The only people that get anything out of this are the cowards in the office pointing the finger at they’re soldiers to go and fight and die and earn them money while they sit on they’re fat behinds laughing all safe and doing nothing. It’s all about money it always has been. Every war America has been in has been staged by America. Created. They make me sick. They drag us into they’re wars and one day someone will get the upper hand on America and we will go down with them. We’re not just sheep but lambs to the slaughter. For what?
Those Iskander Missiles give me a chubby.