MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian Federation has said it volition target U.S. missiles as well as the ships or planes that burn them if an assail on Syrian Arab Republic threatens the lives of its ain nation of war machine personnel based there. Here’s what nosotros know close Russian nation of war machine capabilities inwards Syria:
MISSILES
‘TRIUMPH’ S-400 SURFACE-TO-AIR MISSILES
An advanced truck-mounted arrangement that Russian Federation is known to cause got deployed to protect its Hmeymim air base of operations inwards Syria’s Latakia Province as well as its Tartus naval facility on the coast. Its mobile nature agency it tin easily as well as rapidly live deployed elsewhere. Designed to shoot downward nation of war machine aircraft, missiles as well as drones, its radar tin expose targets upward to 600 kms (375 miles) away. Each truck carries 4 missiles of varying range. Can runway multiple targets simultaneously. Taken seriously past times NATO, the S-400s cause got non been combat tested however. Capable of intercepting U.S. Tomahawk cruise missiles, in that place are enquiry marks over whether Moscow has plenty interceptor missiles deployed to Syrian Arab Republic to direct maintain a large swarm of missiles. In such a province of affairs it mightiness live able to shoot downward some, but non all incoming missiles. Russian Federation besides has an older version of the same missiles - S-300s - deployed inwards Syria.
BASTION COASTAL MISSILE DEFENCE SYSTEM
The Bastion system, idea to live deployed at or close Russia’s Tartus naval facility, is an advanced mobile anti-ship as well as surface-to-surface defense forcefulness arrangement armed alongside ii missiles. Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu has said the arrangement tin striking ocean targets at a distance of 350 km (219 miles) as well as province targets at a distance of 450 km (281 miles). Russian Federation used the arrangement to launch a coordinate blast against rebels inwards Syrian Arab Republic inwards 2016. The Syrian the world forces is besides idea to cause got bought the Bastion arrangement from Russia.
PANTSIR-S1
A truck-mounted brusque to medium make surface-to-air missile as well as anti-aircraft artillery weapons arrangement possessed past times both Russian as well as Syrian authorities forces inwards Syria. Known to live deployed past times Russian Federation at or close its Hmeymim air base of operations as well as at its Tartus naval facility. Has been fired inwards Syrian Arab Republic a release of times to cause got out drones as well as missiles. Can shoot downward cruise missiles.
WARSHIPS
Russia has betwixt 10 as well as fifteen warships as well as back upward vessels deployed inwards the Mediterranean. They include the Admiral Grigorovich as well as Admiral Essen frigates, which are armed alongside cruise missiles, every bit good every bit submarines. According to a senior Russian political leader as well as satellite imagery, most of the ships cause got left Russia’s Tartus naval facility “for their ain safety.” Russian daily Kommersant said they were taking work inwards a long alive burn nation of war game around the Syrian coast intended every bit a present of force. It said Russian Federation had besides deployed Il-38N submarine hunter aircraft.
MILITARY AIRCRAFT
Russia is estimated to cause got dozens of nation of war planes as well as helicopters at its Hmeymim air base of operations inwards Syria’s Latakia Province including fighters, bombers as well as multi-role aircraft. It is besides reported to work some other Syrian base of operations for its helicopter gunships. Moscow is able to mobilize powerful long-range strategic bombers from Russian Federation itself to bear out bombing runs as well as has besides fired cruise missiles inwards the past times from ships inwards the Caspian Sea.
SYRIAN AIR DEFENCES
Syria is known to cause got a mixture of Russian-made anti-aircraft systems, including the Pantsir S-1 as well as the Buk M2 surface-to-air missile arrangement designed to shoot downward cruise missiles, aircraft as well as drones.
PRECEDENT
The USA fired 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles at Syria’s Shayrat air base of operations inwards Apr terminal year, which the Pentagon says was involved inwards a chemic weapons attack. The Russian Defence Ministry mocked the effectiveness of the U.S. strikes at the time, maxim entirely 23 missiles had institute their targets. It was unclear where some other 36 had landed, it said, promising Syrian air defences would straightaway live beefed up. Warned inwards advance past times Washington close the attack, Russian Federation made certain its ain personnel/military assets were good out of harm’s way. Russian Federation did non endeavor to shoot downward whatever of the missiles.
WHAT DOES RUSSIA WANT ANY WESTERN STRIKE TO AVOID?
Valery Gerasimov, caput of Russia’s General Staff, warned inwards March against whatever U.S. blast on the authorities quarter inwards Damascus where he said Russian nation of war machine advisers, Russian nation of war machine police trace as well as Russian ceasefire monitors were based. Russian nation of war machine sources told the Kommersant daily this calendar week that a U.S. blast on Russia’s air base of operations or naval facility inwards Syrian Arab Republic would cause got catastrophic consequences.
WHAT THE EXPERTS SAY
Ben Hodges, a retired U.S. Army lieutenant full general as well as old caput of U.S. Army inwards Europe
Hodges said he expected that the Russian nation of war machine would cause got set inwards house multi-layered defences to protect its aircraft as well as other assets inwards Syria, as well as clearly had the technical capability to repel a U.S. attack.
“What the Russians cause got ever done really well, from the Second World War to now, is to protect themselves alongside air defence. The cardinal to adept air defense forcefulness is that it’s layered. There’s non 1 arrangement that shoots downward everything. Having a layered approach or arrangement that is integrated as well as that connects all the unlike radars that are out in that place to a command as well as command network that’s out there, that’s the trick.”
Unnamed Western nation of war machine official
The official said Russian Federation oftentimes touted its powerfulness to shoot downward Tomahawk missiles inwards its marketing of the S-400 air defense forcefulness system, as well as had probable tested that capability earlier deploying the system.
The official, who asked non to live identified, said Russian Federation had sharply increased its nation of war machine presence inwards the eastern Mediterranean as well as could work ship-borne radar systems to locate as well as runway whatever missiles fired at Syria, relaying the data to air defense forcefulness systems such every bit the S-400.
“The S-400 was clearly designed to live able to defeat a Tomahawk,” said the official, adding that U.S. forces would probable burn several missiles at a time.
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