They’ve been trying to get seriously into Turkey for years. Remember the Erdogan helicopter? Russia getting in tight with Turkey may help them in the Caucasus as they could work out a deal on the Dardanelles and keep the US Navy away.

Russia will rely on the S-400 for strategic air defense. The S-500 is for ABM and ASAT functions. The two systems will cooperate to provide coverage of the nation from the ground to orbit. Putting it on the market is nothing big, if you go to Almaz’s website you can see that they describe all the components using the export designators even:

http://www.raspletin.ru/press-centre/news/2008/080603/

Hell, even Zhirinovsky is clamoring for a fast delivery of the system to Iran :rolleyes:

9M82 isn’t that much faster, 2400 m/s versus 2100 m/s for the 48N6. 48N6DM probably uses an enhanced warhead and higher impulse motor to both increase the speed envelope of the target set and increase the range of the SAM.

What kind of wireless router do you have?

http://www.hindu.com/2006/05/02/stories/2006050201992000.htm

No missile could catch it.

Total sensationalist journalist BS. Give me an S-300P or even S-200 battery and I’ll drop FOXBATs like flies. FLIES.

Iranian Tomcat pilots certainly weren’t scared of nor had any problems swatting them down either. If you want to determine just how effective the MiG-25P was, we should really look at it’s kill/loss ratio. An unsurpassed aircraft of such awesome performance and excellent capability must surely have a dominant kill/loss ratio, right?

S-300PMU is the export version of the S-300PS. I have no idea why they went from PS to PMU.

PMU-1/2 are export versions of the S-300PM (the two variants may be designated S-300PM-1 and PM-2 in Russian service). Right now only the PM-1 is in service. Adding the PM-2 at this point is redundant as the S-400 is now being introduced into service.

S-300VM still appears to be a trials program at this point.

[color=red]No, I’m saying goodbye to troll Buraidah.

Boycott whatever you want.[/color]

The problem with the S-300V is that it is designed as a tactical air defense system. It is designed to protect ground maneuver forces, not large areas such as cities or large military bases. For that kind of capability, you need the S-300PMU-2 with the new 48N6E2 missile. It gives you a directional warhead that has been shown in testing to be able to eliminate incoming warheads. Bearing in mind what India wanted out of their ABM system, I could’ve told you right off that the S-300V was not the right answer.

Some sub component failure and mobility issue in the desert , mind you these exercise are held in peak summers in Rajasthan , where temperature easily reach above 50 * C

Mobility issues? I wonder what sort of problems they may have had that didn’t affect the test program at Sary Shagan?

China got barely few batteries by than.

Which of course means nothing.

China ordered the S-300PMU system in 1991 anyway, receiving it in 1993. The first S-300PMU-1 contract was signed in 1994.

only in 2003 China could afford S-300PMU-2

Or maybe only in 2003 did they place an order for the system with the 96L6 radar integration completed. The PMU-1 was only placed on the market in 2001 anyway.