{"id":190582,"date":"2019-06-27T06:30:31","date_gmt":"2019-06-27T06:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=190582"},"modified":"2019-07-01T07:55:47","modified_gmt":"2019-07-01T07:55:47","slug":"russia-has-bolstered-irans-air-defenses-with-technical-advisers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=190582","title":{"rendered":"Russia Has Bolstered Iran\u2019s Air Defenses With Technical Advisers"},"content":{"rendered":"

John Helmer \u2013 Checkpoint Asia June 25, 2019<\/h1>\n
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The biggest Iranian weakness is not missiles but processing information<\/p><\/div>\n

The Russian General Staff has reinforced the air defences for Russians<\/strong> at the Iranian nuclear reactor complex at Bushehr, on the Persian Gulf, according to sources in Moscow. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

At the same time, Iran has allowed filming of the movement of several of its mobile S-300 air-defence missile batteries to the south, <\/strong>covering the Iranian coastline of the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman.<\/span><\/p>\n

More secretly, elements of Russian military intelligence, electronic warfare, and command and control advisers for Iran\u2019s air defence systems have been mobilized to support Iran against US and allied attacks.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The range of the new surveillance extends well beyond the S-300 strike distance of 200 kilometres, and covers US drone and aircraft bases on the Arabian peninsula, as well as US warships in (and under) the Persian Gulf and off the Gulf of Oman. Early warning of US air and naval-launched attacks has now been cut below the old 4 to 6-minute Iranian threshold. Counter-firing by the Iranian armed forces has been automated from attack warning and target location.<\/span><\/p>\n

This means that if the US is detected launching a swarm of missiles aimed at Iran\u2019s air-defence sites, uranium mines, reactors, and military operations bunkers, Iran will launch its own swarm of missiles at the US firing platforms, as well as at Saudi and other oil production sites, refineries, and pipelines, as well tankers in ports and under way in the Gulf.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe armed forces of Iran,\u201d said a Russian military source requesting anonymity<\/strong>, \u201chave air defence systems capable of hitting air targets at those heights at which drones of the\u00a0Global Hawk series<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0can fly; this is about 19,000 to 20,000 metres. Iran\u2019s means of air defence are both foreign-purchased systems and systems of Iran\u2019s own design; among them, in particular, the old Soviet system S-75 and the new Russian S-300. Recently, Iran transported some S-300\u2019s to the south, but that happened after the drone was shot down<\/strong> [June 20]. Russian specialists are working at Bushehr now and this means that the S-300\u2019s are also for protection of Bushehr.<\/strong>\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Flight distance between Bushehr and Bandar Abbas is about 570 kms. From Bandar Abbas southeast to Kuhmobarak, the site of the Iranian missile firing against the US drone, is another 200 kms. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

Last Thursday, June 20, just after midnight, a US Global Hawk drone was tracked by Iran from its launch at an airbase in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), south of Dubai. The take-off and initial flight route appear to have been more than 300 kms from Iranian tracking radars.<\/strong> Four hours later, the aircraft was destroyed by an Iranian missile at a point at sea off Kuhmobarak. Follow the route tracking data published by the Iranian Foreign Minister, Javad Zarif\u00a0here<\/a><\/strong><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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KEY: blue line=drone flight path; yellow line=Iranian Flight Information Region (FIR); red line=Iranian territorial waters; green line=Iranian internal waters; yellow dots=Iran radio warnings sent; red square=point of impact. Source: Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif:\u00a0https:\/\/twitter.com\/\u00a0The US claims the point of impact was outside the red line.\u00a0Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

Additional tracking data on the US drone operation have been\u00a0published<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0in a simulation by the Iranian state news agency, Fars. The news agency claims the successful strike was by the Iran-made Khordad missile, an S-300 copy; the\u00a0altitude<\/a><\/strong><\/span> has not been reported (design ceiling for the aircraft is 18,000 metres).<\/span><\/p>\n

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Iran Releases Second Video to Show Flight Route of Downed US Drone pic.twitter.com\/LzWrLvRpHB<\/a><\/p>\n

— Fars News Agency (@EnglishFars) June 20, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n