Iran: Defense Missile System more Advanced than S-300 is Underway
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08/02/2010
Iran announced on Monday it is manufacturing a home-built air defense
missile system which would be better than the Russian S-300, which has
been ordered by Tehran but yet to be delivered by Moscow.
"Today, we are building all our air defense weapons by ourselves …
the only thing we wanted to import was the Russian S-300 which so far
they have not delivered for some unacceptable reasons," senior air
force commander Heshmatollah Kasiri was quoted as saying by the
official IRNA news agency.
"But our air defense experts and scientists found a way and in very
near future we will produce an air defense system which has the
capabilities of the Russian S-300 or even more."
Kasiri’s comments come after Iran in late November threatened to take
legal action against Russia if it fails to honor a deal to supply
Tehran with the S-300, an advanced air defense missile system. Russia,
Tehran’s sole ally among world powers, has so far not delivered the
system, in a delay which Iranian officials blame on growing pressure
on Moscow from Washington and Iran’s arch-foe Israel.
Under the contract, Russia would sell Iran five batteries of S-300PMU1
missiles for around 800 million dollars (530 million euros), Interfax
reported. The S-300PMU1 — codenamed the SA-20 Gargoyle by NATO — is
a mobile land-based system designed to shoot down aircraft and cruise
missiles.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
