{"id":193473,"date":"2008-12-13T08:26:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-13T13:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/12\/13\/reports-of-iran-buy-of-sa-20-systems\/"},"modified":"2008-12-13T08:26:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-13T13:26:00","slug":"reports-of-iran-buy-of-sa-20-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/12\/13\/reports-of-iran-buy-of-sa-20-systems\/","title":{"rendered":"Reports of Iran Buy of SA-20 Systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Needless to say, this is something that would <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationweek.com\/aw\/blogs\/defense\/index.jsp?plckController=Blog&amp;plckScript=blogScript&amp;plckElementId=blogDest&amp;plckBlogPage=BlogViewPost&amp;plckPostId=Blog%3A27ec4a53-dcc8-42d0-bd3a-01329aef79a7Post%3A842b973d-dcd3-40eb-ac3c-045719330a95\">concern any country that might be considering an air strike at their nuclear facilities<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The S-300 (SA-20) is a very capable system, with the S-400 (SA-21), which is apparently on offer for export, with no orders yet, even more so.<\/p>\n<p>I <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2007\/08\/russia-to-export-worlds-most-capable.html\">ran the numbers on detection ranges<\/a> about a year ago, using nothing but my basic understanding of physics, and the presence of either the S-300 or S-400 would concern me if I were doing mission planning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Needless to say, this is something that would concern any country that might be considering an air strike at their nuclear facilities. The S-300 (SA-20) is a very capable system, with the S-400 (SA-21), which is apparently on offer for export, with no orders yet, even more so. I ran the numbers on detection ranges &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1008,1034],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-defense-procurement","category-iran"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193473"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}