Russia Arms SYRIA With Powerful Ballistic Missiles

How do you know? What is your source?

More BS to rally the sheep. Syria bought these things in 2005.
Deliveries were made between 2009-2011. Eat it up.

This is common knowledge lads. A simple google search with the words "Syria Iskander 2005" would help you find endless sources. Because of NATO reaction the 26 Iskander units that Syria has today couldn't be delivered before 2009-2011. Last delivery was made in December 2011.

If you get your intel from google, then OMFG LMFAO!!!

Google is directly hardwired to CIA Data and Facts.

Talk about eating out of the hand that deceives.

Yep I remember reading about this purchase years ago. Nothing to see here, move along.

did you know that Iskandar is the eastern name Alexander the Great?

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.

The Iskandar is a surface-to-surface missile that no missile defense system can trace or destroy, Mashregh said. Russia had earlier threatened that should America put its missile defense system in Poland, it would retaliate by placing its Iskander missiles at Kaliningrad, its Baltic Sea port.

Russia’s delivery of Iskanders to Bashar Assad’s embattled regime clearly shows that the security and stability of Syria remains Russia’s red line, Mashregh said. It is unknown how many of these missiles have been delivered but the numbers given are sufficient to destroy any Patriot missiles in Turkey, it said.

The delivery of the missile not only threatens the security of Turkey but also Israel, which would have to recalculate its strategy with its defensive and offensive capabilities.

As reported in a WND exclusive on Dec. 5, Iran’s Islamic regime also sees the toppling of the Assad regime as its red line and has 170 ballistic missiles targeting Tel Aviv in underground missile silos, some with biological warheads.

Things are getting heated. Russia will protect Syria

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I do. :)
Persian name for Alexander though.

I do. :)
Persian name for Alexander though.

isn't it cool to name a missile to one of the greatest heroic legends (maybe not so heroic)??!!
I just don't get why Iran doesn't do that....they name them in Arabic
they don't name their domestic missiles (Cyrus, or Dariush, or Xerxes)

isn't it cool to name a missile to one of the greatest heroic legends (maybe not so heroic)??!!
I just don't get why Iran doesn't do that....they name them in Arabic
they don't name their domestic missiles (Cyrus, or Dariush, or Xerxes)

isn't it cool to name a missile to one of the greatest heroic legends (maybe not so heroic)??!!
I just don't get why Iran doesn't do that....they name them in Arabic
they don't name their domestic missiles (Cyrus, or Dariush, or Xerxes)

Yep, they decided to play this at a convenient time for them though.

and why would the Russians use the Persian name for the missile?

There was another visit to that same port not long ago, I wonder what got dropped off that time? Perhaps that was the cruise missiles and this is something to counter the Turkey problem like projectiles that can hit overland smugglers. Two week mop up after that, NATO will be home for Christmas.

Welcome to the new cold war. War is so stupid, why do we all let it happen?

Welcome to the new cold war. War is so stupid, why do we all let it happen?

You're kidding RIGHT?

MMMMMMmaybe they're trying to counter balance what other outside influences are doing?
OR
The big boys on the block need to find the pecking order again?

Idiotic HELL the whole M.E. is idiotic and much of it do to outside influence.

There is no doubt that Russians are providing military equipment to Syria with every visit imo and we can't possibly know what the goodies are, but this is quite a different thing than believing every disinfo the MSM are spreading to further their agenda, Iskander story is years old.

It was a few years ago that the West was making a big stink about Syria getting the S-300 system, the state of the art version is the S-500 but the tube launchers look the same to me so perhaps software is the biggest change (besides the longer range and multi target capabilities)

It was a few years ago that the West was making a big stink about Syria getting the S-300 system, the state of the art version is the S-500 but the tube launchers look the same to me so perhaps software is the biggest change (besides the longer range and multi target capabilities)