{"id":16174,"date":"2018-09-24T12:31:25","date_gmt":"2018-09-24T12:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=16174"},"modified":"2018-09-24T12:31:25","modified_gmt":"2018-09-24T12:31:25","slug":"russia-to-send-modern-s-300-missile-defense-systems-to-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=16174","title":{"rendered":"Russia to send modern S-300 missile defense systems to Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1376906\/middle-east\" readability=\"45\">\n<p>\nMOSCOW: Moscow will bolster Syria&#8217;s air defence with a S-300 system and jam radars of military planes striking from off the coast of the Mediterranean following the downing of a Russian plane, its military chief said.<br \/>Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said that President Vladimir Putin has ordered additional security measures after a Syrian Soviet-era S-200 air defence missile shot down a Russian military plane by mistake, killing 15, in an incident last week that Moscow blames on Israel.<br \/>&#8220;This has pushed us to adopt adequate response measures directed at boosting the security of Russian troops&#8221; in Syria, Shoigu said in a televised statement.<br \/>&#8220;(Russia will) transfer the modern S-300 air defence system to the Syrian armed forces within two weeks.&#8221;<br \/>Syrian military had already been trained to use the system, which was set to be sent over in 2013 but was held up &#8220;at the request of Israel,&#8221; Shoigu said.<br \/>&#8220;In regions near Syria over the Mediterranean Sea, there will be radio-electronic suppression of satellite navigation, on-board radar systems and communication systems of military aviation attacking objects on Syrian territory.&#8221;<br \/>Moscow says Israeli F-16 planes which struck Latakia in western Syria on September 17 later used the landing Russian Il-20 surveillance plane as a &#8220;cover,&#8221; which resulted in the Il-20 being struck by a Syrian air defence missile.<br \/>&#8220;We are certain that the realisation of these measures will cool the &#8216;hot heads&#8217; and will keep them from poorly thought-out actions which threaten our servicemen,&#8221; Shoigu said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOSCOW: Moscow will bolster Syria&#8217;s air defence with a S-300 system and jam radars of military planes striking from off the coast of the Mediterranean following the downing of a Russian plane, its military chief said.Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said that President Vladimir Putin has ordered additional security measures after a Syrian Soviet-era S-200 air&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":16175,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}