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Old 05-29-13, 02:34 PM   #16
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Israeli technology inventions are in practically every computer, smartphone and laptop being produced anywhere in the world, and most computers have components "made in Israel". The list of electronics patents Israeli people hold, is impressive. Not even mentioning patents in other fields.

What I mean is - if they really go after it, I'm quite certain they find a way to defeat the SAMs - even more when not running into them and getting surprised, but expecting them to be there. And when S-300s get moved towards southern Syria, closer to Lebanon, closer to Hezbollah, closer to positions from where they reach into Israeli air space - then at the latest they will take them out.

They have no other choice then anyway. No nation able to confront the other would sit still with somebody else's spear tip pointing at his throat, over the border. The air force is too important for Israel.

There are many different versions of the S-300, with ranges varying between 70 km (SA-10 Grumble) and almost 200 km (SA-20 Gargoyle). We do not know which version the Russian deliver, do we? If they deliver the Gargoyle-armed variant, then they really provoke Israel and indeed ask for Israel striking at them.
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