This is probably one of the most serious threats to Israel that Hezbollah could hold up until this time and in fact, this threat could actually affect American naval operations in the area as well. According to this article at DEBKA, the Syrians currently have an air defense system all ready to transport to Hezbollah in Lebanon - the chilling part is that this would make Hezbollah the first terrorist organization on the planet with an air defense system. Here's some of the details:
Here's more detail on exactly what these weapons are that Syria is getting ready to transfer over to Hezbollah:
We have just seen how effective the IAF was in the Cast Lead Operation in Gaza and we can also look back to the Lebanon War of 2006 where we saw the IAF nearly dismantle all of Hezbollah's rocket launching sites - well, that will all change with this augmentation of this air defense system. I don't see how Israel can allow this to get installed - if the Syrians do transfer it over, the Israelis need to take it out in transit or once it arrives. I mean seriously, this can be viewed as the same kind of threat the Israelis took out when they bombed the Syrian nuclear facility.
And again, the world sits back while Iran creates chaos everywhere in the world except it's own land - imagine or a moment, if Israel were to place missile launchers in Afghanistan near Iran...you'd see the United Nations explode with anger...you'd see the Iranians melt down on every tv camera. But here we have Iran placing weapons and defense systems in Lebanon, within 25 miles of the Israeli border and we hear crickets from the world.
The northern borders may be the more flammable, our military sources report, after Israel warned Damascus, through US, Egyptian and Turkish channels, that its delivery of scores of mobile anti-air missile systems to Hizballah in Lebanon would cross a red line.
Their possession would make Hizballah the first terrorist group in the world to be armed with an independent air defense weapon system.
In Hizballah's hands, this air defense system would seriously endanger Israeli air movements over Galilee and the Mediterranean, impede US Sixth Fleet flights and endow the Lebanese Shiite group with total military superiority over the Lebanese army and the UNIFIL peacekeepers in the south.
Here's more detail on exactly what these weapons are that Syria is getting ready to transfer over to Hezbollah:
The highly-mobile, low-altitude, single-stage surface-to-air missile has a radar system that can detect, track and engage aircraft independently, picking up targets at 30 km and begin tracking them at 20-25 km.
Two separate missile guidance radars are used (with offset frequencies to reduce the effectiveness of Electronic Counter Measures (ECM), so that if one is jammed or shut down, the new missiles can track targets optically. It is armed with a 19-kilo fragmentation warhead with contact and proximity detonation capability.
We have just seen how effective the IAF was in the Cast Lead Operation in Gaza and we can also look back to the Lebanon War of 2006 where we saw the IAF nearly dismantle all of Hezbollah's rocket launching sites - well, that will all change with this augmentation of this air defense system. I don't see how Israel can allow this to get installed - if the Syrians do transfer it over, the Israelis need to take it out in transit or once it arrives. I mean seriously, this can be viewed as the same kind of threat the Israelis took out when they bombed the Syrian nuclear facility.
And again, the world sits back while Iran creates chaos everywhere in the world except it's own land - imagine or a moment, if Israel were to place missile launchers in Afghanistan near Iran...you'd see the United Nations explode with anger...you'd see the Iranians melt down on every tv camera. But here we have Iran placing weapons and defense systems in Lebanon, within 25 miles of the Israeli border and we hear crickets from the world.
Syria poised to transfer Iranian mobile anti-air missiles to Lebanese Hizballah
Their possession would make Hizballah the first terrorist group in the world to be armed with an independent air defense weapon system.
In Hizballah's hands, this air defense system would seriously endanger Israeli air movements over Galilee and the Mediterranean, impede US Sixth Fleet flights and endow the Lebanese Shiite group with total military superiority over the Lebanese army and the UNIFIL peacekeepers in the south.
According to DEBKA-Net-Weekly's military sources, scores of missile carriers painted in Hizballah's colors stand ready at four Syrian military depots ready to cross the Lebanese border. In the last six months, hundreds of operatives trained in their operation in Iran and Syria. Iranian and Syrian missile officers have picked Lebanese sites for their deployment. Hizballah has placed them off-limits to civilians.
The highly-mobile, low-altitude, single-stage surface-to-air missile has a radar system that can detect, track and engage aircraft independently, picking up targets at 30 km and begin tracking them at 20-25 km.
Two separate missile guidance radars are used (with offset frequencies to reduce the effectiveness of Electronic Counter Measures (ECM), so that if one is jammed or shut down, the new missiles can track targets optically. It is armed with a 19-kilo fragmentation warhead with contact and proximity detonation capability.
A battery consists of two launch vehicles, each armed with 6 missiles and two transload vehicles with 18 missile reloads. The lethal radius at low altitude is 5 meters.
It is highly mobile, fully amphibious, air transportable and can be relocated to a new site within four minutes from system shutdown.
The integration of the newbatteries with the C-802 shore-to-ship missiles (of which Hizballah has taken delivery of more than 1,000), when deployed along the Lebanese Mediterranean coast would sharply inhibit the movements of the US Sixth Fleet.
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