Israel Intercepts Syrian Missile Fired at IAF Fighter Jet With Arrow-3 After Bombing Inside Syria

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It's kind of funny. We split the cost for a missile defense system that works outstandingly well in testing and operational scenarios, and yet it has never once been brought to the US or even been seriously talked about for use by US forces.

And meanwhile our missile defense, outside the Aegis program has been a godawful mess and next to useless. Even THAAD had its issues during testing.

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I remember a handful of missed targets with THAAD in the early 2000's, like 06 is specifically comes to mind.

Perhaps the missile fired was a SCUD or that other funky named one that was replaced with Iskander ??? Perhaps those are not as difficult targets to acquire??

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The Scud is a pretty low tech missile compared to others. Top speed is fairly low compared to more modern missiles, at Mach 5, with a range of less than 500 miles.

The Patriot was capable of hitting them in Desert Storm, the big problem was that when they hit them, they tended to hit the body, leaving the warhead intact.

There are rumors that Iran transferred several Zelzal-2 missiles to Hezbollah, possibly with Iranian liason officers. The Zelzal-2 is apparently a locally produced version of the Frog-7.

originally posted by: Zaphod58
a reply to: worldstarcountry

The Scud is a pretty low tech missile compared to others. Top speed is fairly low compared to more modern missiles, at Mach 5, with a range of less than 500 miles.

The Patriot was capable of hitting them in Desert Storm, the big problem was that when they hit them, they tended to hit the body, leaving the warhead intact.

There are rumors that Iran transferred several Zelzal-2 missiles to Hezbollah, possibly with Iranian liason officers. The Zelzal-2 is apparently a locally produced version of the Frog-7.

Frog-7 has a range of 70kms whereas Z-2 has a range of 210kms moreover Z-2 has very smaller CEP of less than 500 meters

Z-2 is an obsolete missile. it was developed in 1990s. Hezbollah is now in possession of Persian-Gulf missiles with the CEP of less than 8 meters and a range of 300kms well covering all of Israel

Latest generations of PG missile has stealth features, longer range and a CEP of less than 5 meters. however its unknown if Hezbollah has these missiles

Not only will they continue strikes, Iran believes Russia allegedly may have given Israel the Syrian air defense codes.

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Report: Iran accuses Russia of giving Israel codes for Syrian air defenses
Iran has accused Russia of giving the codes for Syria's anti-aircraft missiles to Israel, a senior official in the engineering department of Iran's Defense Department told the Kuwaiti daily Al-Jarida on Monday.

According to the source, Damascus and Tehran "were shocked" every time the Russian-made air defense system did not work to defend Syria's airspace, or even give notification that the air space had been penetrated in order to evacuate outposts prior to the airstrike. The systems are supposed to identify the takeoff of Israeli Air Force jets from their bases because of the small distance between the countries and is even supposed to attempt to target the planes and any missiles that are fired from them.

According to the source, the Iranians and the Syrians suspected that Russia gave the codes for the air defense system to Israel and even refused the requests of Tehran and Damascus to check the codes. "Iran has the ability today to change the Russian security codes since it received the advanced Russian S-300," the source added. "This came after it received reports that Israel got the operation codes for the missile system. In Iran, they even expanded their knowledge when they built the Bavar-373 air defense system - which is a domestic copy of the Russian S-300 - in order that the systems would work together during an attack."

According to the source, three weeks ago, during Iranian military maneuvers, Iranian engineers hacked into the codes of the S-300, but when the Bavar-373 was not working in conjunction with the Russian air defense system the experiment was suspended.

The source said further that the Iranian Defense Ministry sent several engineers to Syria to change the codes of the air defense system that was under the control of the Syrian army, without Moscow's knowledge. "They succeeded in changing some of the codes last month and therefore when the Israel fighter jets took off from their bases - the air defense system succeeded in identifying them and firing interceptor missiles at them and at the missiles they had launched."

The source added that "the Syrian radar treated Israeli fighter jets as friendly planes in the past and not as enemy planes, which proves that Israel knew the codes of the missile system."

Well those are some serious accusations. Very troubling revelations between supposed allies if true. This situation sure is complicated.

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Netanyahu: Israel clarified to Russia that IDF will continue Syria strikes
The Israel Air Force will continue to execute missions in Syria to contain threats against the country, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told reporters in China on Tuesday, dismissing reports that Russia had asked for an end to such defensive actions.

The agreement between Russia and Israel that allows the air force to execute defensive missions against targets in Syria has not changed, Netanyahu said. In such instances, he said, “We attack if we have information and the operational feasibility. This will continue.”

On Monday, Syrian President Bashar Assad said his country would continue to defend its borders against such strikes. Friday’s attack was unusual in that Syria shot anti-aircraft missiles at Israeli jets.

Russia also summoned Israeli Ambassador Gary Koren to defend the strike, which took place close to its troops.

Got to love that faux surprise. "What!? They are defending their air space?? How could they, what were they thinking??