Why is the US so afraid of Russian anti-aircraft missile system?

[Samuel Nixon]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...ime-antiaircraft-missile-system-10504444.html
I can't understand the drumbeat made of the Russian-Syrian relations and weapon agreements. Russia has been selling weapon to Syria since the early USSR. And everyone was practically okay with that.
As far as I know the ABM systems are not even used to attack. Their appropriation has always been to defend from the attacks.
So do we really need to worry about what is Assad really doing within his sovereign borders?

 

[defcon4]

The Russian threat is a drummed up political BS to divert attention from real issues. So, here we have Russia with a population of 140 million vs. EU population of 500 million.
How can anybody with common sense explain the Russian "threat?" Armament wise the EU has state of the art military hardware also including nuclear weaponry. What do you say
Sbiker ?

 

[waltky]

Russia upgrading their SAMs...

Russia 'Closing Gap' Between US with Newer Air Defenses, General Says
Sep 15, 2015 | Russia's development of new surface-to-air missile systems and other air defenses has 'closed the gap' between U.S. air superiority, a general said.

The country in recent years has deployed an increasing number of higher quality air defense systems, particularly in and around Kaliningrad and Crimea – which it annexed from the Ukraine last year – to limit the ability of U.S. and NATO aircraft to enter its airspace, according to Air Force Gen. Frank Gorenc, the service's European commander. "I don't think it's controversial to say that they've closed the gap in capability – not just in Europe, everywhere," he said Monday at the Air and Space Conference, held near Washington, D.C., and organized by the Air Force Association.

Gorenc didn't cite specific systems, but the Russians have multiple surface-to-air missiles systems designed to target high-altitude aircraft, from the S-400, arguably the most advanced such system in the world, to the S-75A Dvina, which in 1960 was employed to shoot down an American-made U-2 spy plane as it traveled over Soviet airspace. Indeed, Russia's Buk missile system, which has the NATO designations SA-11/SA-17, was what pro-Russian separatists reportedly fired at Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 on July 17, 2014, while the plane was traveling near the Russian-Ukraine border, destroying the aircraft and killing all 298 passengers and crew on board.

Gorenc said the Russian modernization program of its air defenses stems in part from its 2008 conflict with Georgia, which relied on unmanned technology and other systems for reconnaissance. A Russian jet reportedly shot down a Georgian drone during the campaign. "Russians have closed the gap in capability" in terms of aircraft, tactics and, most importantly, surface-to-air missile systems, the general said. "It's one thing to address a aircraft threat that has increased significantly -- which by the way it has -- but clearly, surface to air missile systems are much cheaper, they're much more available and that is a concern."

Gorenc said Russia has deployed "a whole set" of modern, long-range SAMs and layered them in a way to make it more difficult for U.S. and NATO aircraft to penetrate the airspace. "Some of the array that's in Kaliningrad extends into Poland today, that's a fact," he said. "Up to this point, we have talked anti-access, area-denial with respect to the Pacific problem, but what I'm telling you is this is not just a Pacific problem, it is as significant in Europe as it is anywhere else on the planet." Gorenc said the U.S. has deployed such aircraft as the F-15, A-10 and F-22 to Europe to support NATO allies in response to Russia military activity in the region.

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[RandomVariable]

If Assad ever does get back in control the blood letting and torture will be one for the record books.

 

[tyroneweaver]

Who's Russia's new ally...Iran
Obama's nuke treaty gives Iran icbm's
connect the dots

 

[defcon4]

If Assad ever does get back in control the blood letting and torture will be one for the record books.

I doubt anybody can beat the record set by communist jews of Russia starting in 1917.

 

[RandomVariable]

If Assad ever does get back in control the blood letting and torture will be one for the record books.

I doubt anybody can beat the record set by communist jews of Russia starting in 1917.

Google for 'communist Jew': Jewish Bolshevism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Jewish Bolshevism also known as Judeo-Bolshevism is an antisemitic canard which alleges that the Jews were at the origin of theRussian Revolution and held the primary power among Bolsheviks. Similarly, theJewish Communism theory implies that Jews have been dominating the Communist movements in the world. They are part of theZOG conspiracy theory, which asserts that Jews control world politics.[1] The expressions have been used as a catchword for the assertion that Communism is a Jewish conspiracy, and it has often coincided with overtly aggressive nationalistic tendencies in the 20th century and 21st century.​

 

[defcon4]

Google for 'communist Jew': Jewish Bolshevism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jewish Bolshevism also known as Judeo-Bolshevism is an antisemitic canard which alleges that the Jews were at the origin of theRussian Revolution and held the primary power among Bolsheviks. Similarly, theJewish Communism theory implies that Jews have been dominating the Communist movements in the world. They are part of theZOG conspiracy theory, which asserts that Jews control world politics.[1] The expressions have been used as a catchword for the assertion that Communism is a Jewish conspiracy, and it has often coincided with overtly aggressive nationalistic tendencies in the 20th century and 21st century.

I do not need to read revisionist articles from Wikipedia... I am very familiar with the Red Cheka ...very familiar with the "socialist revolutions" spread by the jews throughout Europe in the 1919es.. Thank you though..

 

[Wildman]

"Why is the US so afraid of Russian anti-aircraft missile system?"

who says we are???

 

[dannyboys]

That's right Putin is just a big old teddy bear.
Tell that to the Ukrainians.