Russia has pledged to deliver the S 300 missile system after last week's downing of a Russian
plane by Syrian forces responding to an Israeli airstrike.
The Russian Il-20 military reconnaissance aircraft was shot down by Syrian air defenses
that mistook it for an Israeli aircraft.
On 25th, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu announced that the S-300s will be delivered
to Damascus in next two weeks.
Earlier, Moscow had decided not to the supply the S 300, keeping in view that it could be
used against Israel resulting in escalation of hostilities.
In this video, Defense Updates examines if the deployment of Russian S 300 will stop
Israel from launching air strikes in Syria?
Let's get into the details.
The S-300 is Russian long-range air defense system produced by NPO Almaz.
The S-300 system was first deployed by the Soviet Union in 1979 since then many variants
of the system have been produced.
The system is designed to protect important areas like military bases, administrative
buildings against aerial threats like fighter jets, bomber aircraft, cruise missiles, and drones.
S-300 is considered to one of the most lethal operational air defense systems in the world.
The S 300 can be configured with many types of radars depending on threat analysis.
Some of these radars are reportedly capable of detecting stealthy aircraft like F 35 or
F 22.
Importantly most of these radars have electronic counter-measures like the ability to change
frequency of their signals very rapidly to prevent jamming.
The maximum detection range of the main radar against aircraft sized target is estimated
to be 300 km.
It can guide up to 12 missiles simultaneously, engaging up to 6 targets at once.
S 300 also use multiple types of missile to target different types of threats.
For example, the 9M82 missile has a range of 100 km with a speed of Mach 7.5 and 48N6E2
missile has a range of 195 km and speed of Mach 6.
The speed of these missiles makes them almost impossible to outrun in a battle space.
Also, many of the missiles like 48N6E2 are not only guided by S 300 radars but also have
active radar homing, making them very agile and hard to shrug off even with very high G maneuvers.
For airstrikes, Israel can deploy the F 16 fighter jets.
These fighters are very capable jets especially in the hands of well trained Israeli pilots.
But there is no escape from the fact that these non-stealthy fighters will be detected
if they try to intrude in the airspace defended by S 300.
In case the S 300 is authorized to fire, then it will be very hard for F 16s to escape.
Israel also has F 35 5th generation stealth aircraft.
These advance aircraft are probably the best bet for Israel when it comes to defeating the S 300.
It will be very hard to judge at this point if Israel will deploy its newest and very
expensive fighter in such a risky environment like this.
It must be noted that F 35's airframe is not as stealthy as found in the F 22 Raptor
• Against x-band radars, it is only stealthy from front and rear;
• Against S-band radar, it is stealthy from the narrow front aspect,
• Against L-band radar, the limited reduction is achieved from direct front
It has a much greater reliance on radar-absorbing materials to maintain its stealth profile.
So even if deployed, F 35 will succeed only if the strike missions are very well planned.
Israel least risky option will be to use cruise missile from standoff distances.
Popeye and Delilah have a range of around 250 km which will enable them to be launched
from the edge of S 300's radar coverage.
But these missiles are likely to be intercepted by S 300 as both Popeye and Delilah are subsonic.
A saturation attack will be hard to pull off since S 300 has lots of firepower at its disposable.
Each launcher vehicle carries 4 missile containers.
A full battalion includes 6 launcher vehicles with a total of 24 missiles in a ready state.
Israel's ability to conduct successful air strike in Syria till now is the culmination
of multiple factors like excellent mission planning, quality hardware, and skilled pilots.
Deployment of S 300 brings in a different kind of challenge, since the system has very
little chinks to exploit.
It is not clear how many S 300 systems will be supplied by Russia, though some reports
suggest it will 8.
The number of the system will determine how much area will be under the coverage of S 300.
Keeping the lethality of S 300 in consideration, Israel may have to keep its air strikes limited
to areas which are not under the protection of S 300.
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