![]() In 2013, amid speculation that Moscow was going through with the delivery and not long after the Israeli air campaign over Syria began, Israel hinted it would take preemptive action and destroy the systems before Syria could put them into operation. However, following the onset of that country’s civil war the following year, deliveries were suspended, ultimately until October 2018. If, however, Russia has transferred full command and control over those S-300s to the Syrian military and allowed Damascus to use them to try and prevent Israel from attacking Iran-linked targets in the country, that would be a whole other story. Masyaf, the site of the May 13 strike, is, as Stratfor has already noted, “near Syria’s Latakia province, which hosts Russia’s air and naval bases and is normally off-limits to Israeli strikes, bringing the Israeli raid close to Moscow’s previous red lines.” Russia likely wants Israel to at least limit its attacks in certain parts of the country, particularly the western regime-controlled areas where the Russian military presence and bases in Syria are primarily concentrated. AFP PHOTO / Costas Metaxakis (Photo credit should read Costas Metaxakis/AFP via Getty Images) AFP via Getty Images Greece is the first NATO country to try the Russian long-range missile system. the island of Crete on December 13, 2013. An S-300 PMU-1 anti-aircraft missile launches during a Greek army military exercise near Chania on.
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