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Old 21st Dec 2015, 10:58
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Originally Posted by PhilipG
It was reported over the weekend that a Hezbollah leader Samir Kantar and others were killed by an Israeli air strike on the building in Damascus.

It surprises me that with all the hype over the AS400 system that the Russians have installed and the previously well functioning Syrian air defence systems that if it was an Israeli air strike that there was no functioning air defence.

Can anyone shed any light?
One would also suspect that Damascus would have some sort of integrated Air Defence. That said, I imagine it would be difficult to integrate the Russian Air Defence into the Syrian IADS.
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