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Russian radar sniffers for ayatollahs
Published: 26 October, 2011, 12:45
Truck-mounted 1L222 Avtobaza detector
Russia has delivered to Iran a consignment of mobile radar radiation detectors and hopes to agree on a number of similar deals, a Russian arms trade official said on Tuesday.
“We’re not talking here about aircraft or submarines or even S-300 systems. It is about providing security for the Iranian state,” Konstantin Biryulin, deputy director of Russia’s Federal Service for Military Technical Co-operation, told RIA Novosti.
The detectors, called 1L222 Avtobaza, passively collect electromagnetic radiation from surrounding airspace and identify its sources. Those include side-looking airborne radars used in combat aircraft, targeting radars of air-to-surface weapons, and radars used to guide aircraft flying at extremely low altitudes.
“We are in constant negotiations with Iran over the acquisition of military hardware not subject to UN sanctions against this country. Those are defense systems, including electronic warfare weapons, in this case,” Biryulin stressed.
The S-300 systems in question are Russian-made long-range air defense weapons which Russia was going to sell to Iran. The deal was signed back in 2007 but was never finalized due to an arms embargo implemented by the UN in 2010.
Iran has since developed its own system, which it believes to be better than the S-300. Tehran believes that Moscow backed out of the arms deal due to political pressure put on it by Washington and Tel Aviv.
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Poor Russia, always a day late and a dollar short. Pray tell, gentle Russians, what will happen when the oppressed in Iran finally defeat their Russian-supported government of thugs? Here in Canada, many Iranians are seething again at the support Russia offers to a criminal regime of pseudo-religious thugs. Even t Vladimir Putin should understand that payback will come again to Russia, just as it came after Poland was liberated from Russian domination, the Baltics were also liberated, and the world finally learned the squalid meaning of "Russian democracy".
well America may be crazy and ready to blow every body up so ask your selves this, do you real want to upset the country who has enough nuclear weapons to wipe out everything. sure you do iran launches on israel they fire back then america chimes in and fires nukes too and russia dosent want to feel left out so they launch so nukes too and wouldnt you know it so do the rest of the countries that pray to different invisible guys then they do fire off, and wow sounds fun i know i am ready for fireworks arent you. the fact is the whole world is in a urinating match and the people who live in the countries, the ones who deal with the problems on a daily basis pay. not the government puppets who sit in big offices and us a map of the world to play a real life game of risk using us as the pawns. all of you get it your head you leaders care nothing for you, you are a number on a piece of paper to them. they do as they please to address their own agendas WAKE UP.