(Franco Iacch)
11/25/15

http://www.difesaonline.it/mondo-militare/crisi-mosca-ankara-i-turchi-inconsapevolmente-hanno-regalato-putin-il-controllo-dello

Putin is the master of the Syrian sky with a total action range of 500 km. You might not otherwise define what is happening at this time with the entry into service at the base of Hmeymim near Bassel Al-Assad International Airport with the anti aircraft line S300/S400. Plus of course the defensive screen represented by cruiser Moscow, near the port of Tartus.

Let's start from the defense screen represented by Moscow that extends to the southern part of Turkey, home of the bases used by the United States for the raids in Syria. The Russian General Staff yesterday was clear: any enemy threat will be disintegrated. It needs to figure out when a threat when detected on radar, will be recognized as such.

We said that Moscow is an imposing carrier-killer with his SS-N-12 Sandbox launched in swarms and 64 counter air missiles S-300 PMU-1/2. Those 64 missiles of the latest generation, are able to shoot down ballistic missiles and fighters make Slava vector class a nightmare for the coalition.
The most powerful ship ever built by the Soviet Navy requires the western coalition to review its entire strategy.

Moscow, at least at this time, seems to have closed like a clam. The feeling is that the Kremlin does not trust anybody anymore. But the Turkish trap (the violation of airspace is done regularly by both sides and were on the agenda during the Cold War), gave Putin a pretext to control Syrian airspace.

The Moscow gives a coverage of 150 km in all around 360 degrees from the port of Latakia. A 77 km away is the base of Hmeymim. Moscow has confirmed a double line of defense. The S-300 is considered lethal against all the jets of the fourth generation and, in any case, against all the vectors that are not equipped with stealth technology. The S-400 version, however, is designed precisely to intercept Western stealth threats.

The missile 9M82M known as "Antey-2500" (NATO reporting name SA-23 Gladiator \ Giant) is specifically designed for tactical defense against medium-range ballistic missiles or enemy aircraft. It can track up to 100 targets, being able ingaggiarne 12/24 at a distance of 200 kilometers (124 miles) and a height of 27 kilometers (about 17 miles). The SA-23 is believed immune to most of the countermeasures ECM western with a tangency operational thirty thousand meters. The Antey, once put online, requires no maintenance for at least ten years, while its warheads are believed to be able to defeat even the most modern ballistic missiles Western. And 'led by an inertial system with updated radio mid-term, while in the terminal phase relies on a semi-active radar.

The problem is that the Russians have deployed in the base of Hmeymim version V4 with a range of 400 km. For the Russians, there is no aircraft (including the B-2, F-22 and F-35) can deal with impunity a system S-400. The systems S-300 (and S-400) represents the highest point of land-air defense systems Russians. They are designed to protect areas of strategic importance. Each battery can attack more than half a dozen targets simultaneously.

The main difference with the previous generation SAM strategic, is that the S-300 is a mobile system. Not only the S-300 are networked. This means that in an integrated air defense, the S-300 represents a challenge unwinnable for all aircraft of the fourth generation exist. F-15, F-16 and F / A-18 would have little hope to emerge unscathed from a protected area by the S-300.

The S-400 Triumph (NATO designation SA-21 Growler) is a Russian anti-aircraft missile system designed to destroy all targets aerospace modern and advanced to a distance of 400 km (248.5 miles), a range nearly double the MIM-104 American Patriot. The S-400 Triumph, updating the series S-300, is in service with the Russian armed forces since April 2007, with operational use in August of that year. To date, the Russians have online four regiments armed with S-400 to protect national airspace in the Moscow region, the Baltic enclave of Kaliningrad and the Eastern Military District. For the Russians, there is no aircraft (including the B-2, F-22 and F-35) can deal with impunity a system S-400.

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IZAKOVIC