Russian servicemen rest on top of an armoured personnel carrier (APC) as S-300 air defense missile systems launch missiles during the Keys to the Sky competition at the International Army Games 2017 at the Ashuluk shooting range outside Astrakhan, Russia August 5, 2017. (photo credit: MAXIM SHEMETOV/REUTERS)
Deliveries of Russian S-300 air defense systems to Syria minimized the possibility of successful Israeli air strikes, Syrian Army political bureau head Brig. Gen. Hasan Ahmad Hasan told the Russian news agency Sputnik in an interview.
“There is no concept of zero probability in military strategy. We cannot say that this probability has been reduced to zero. Because we are talking about open skies, extended borders, various technologies… Therefore, I cannot say that in the end there will not be such a probability, however, the probability of this aggression achieving its goals has been minimized,” Hasan stated commenting on the possibility of new Israeli attacks on Syria following the S-300 deliveries.
Russia delivered launchers, radars and command and control vehicles of the advanced air-to-surface missile system to Syria in early October. The decision to deliver the S-300 system to Syria was a response to the downing of a Russian reconnaissance plane by Syrian air defenses during an Israeli air strike on targets in Syria during the previous month.
Jerusalem Post Arab-Israeli Conflict
SYRIAN OFFICER: RUSSIA’S S-300 SYSTEM MINIMIZES SUCCESS OF ISRAELI STRIKE
“There is no concept of zero probability in military strategy. We cannot say that this probability has been reduced to zero.”
BY ANNA AHRONHEIM NOVEMBER 8, 2018 12:49
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Syrian officer: Russia’s S-300 system minimizes success of Israeli strike
Russian servicemen rest on top of an armoured personnel carrier (APC) as S-300 air defense missile systems launch missiles during the Keys to the Sky competition at the International Army Games 2017 at the Ashuluk shooting range outside Astrakhan, Russia August 5, 2017. (photo credit: MAXIM SHEMETOV/REUTERS)
The deployment of Russia’s advanced S-300 anti-aircraft systems to Syria has minimized the chances of successful Israeli air strikes, a senior Syrian officer said Thursday.
“There is no concept of zero probability in military strategy,” Syrian Army political bureau head Brig.-Gen. Hasan Ahmad Hasan told Russia’s Sputnik News. “We cannot say that this probability has been reduced to zero, because we are talking about open skies, extended borders, various technologies… Therefore, I cannot say that in the end there will not be such a probability, however, the probability of this aggression achieving its goals has been minimized.”
On November 7, another Russian state-run news agency, TASS, reported that Russian technical specialists had completed the reconfiguration of the supplied systems to replace the Russian codes and letter frequencies of the ground radar to the letter codes and radars to Syrian ones.
“All three battalions armed with S-300PMU-2 systems are ready for combat operation in Syria. Syrian military personnel are now to be instructed in their use,” TASS quoted a military source as saying.
Since Russia announced its decision to provide S-300 air defense systems to Syria in late September, Israeli top officials have repeatedly threated to destroy them. However, so far, no Israeli airstrikes have taken place in the war-torn country.
