Bastion mobile coastal missile system. (picture: Internet)
Russia Sending Air And Sea Defenses To Syria -- New York Times
MOSCOW — The chief of Russia’s state-controlled arms exporter said on Friday that his company was shipping advanced defensive missile systems to Syria that could be used to shoot down airplanes or sink ships if the United States or other Western nations try to intervene to halt the country’s spiral of violence.
“I would like to say these mechanisms are really a good means of defense, a reliable defense against attacks from the air or sea,” Anatoly P. Isaykin, the general director of company, Rosoboronexport, said in an interview Friday. “This is not a threat, but whoever is planning an attack should think about this.”
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My Comment: The fist paragraph of this report sums up what is Russia's policy towards the West when it comes to Syria. Is anyone listening .... I hope so.
