S-300 Missiles for Iran 'Dismantled, Scrapped' - Manufacturer

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http://en.ria.ru/world/20130829/183040436/S-300-Missiles-for-Iran-Dismantled-Scrapped---Manufacturer.html

S-300 Missiles for Iran ‘Dismantled, Scrapped' – Manufacturer

29/08/2013


S-300 © RIA Novosti. Valeri Melnikov

ZHUKOVSKY, August 29 (RIA Novosti) – The S-300 advanced air defense missile systems that Russia refused to deliver to Iran have now been completely dismantled and scrapped, the CEO of the company that built them said Thursday.

“The equipment that was to have been delivered to Iran is no more,” Almaz-Antey Corporation’s CEO Vladislav Menshchikov said. “We have dismantled it completely. Some elements, which could be used, have been used. Some have been scrapped.”

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Russia signed a deal in 2007 to provide Iran four S-300 batteries. Russia annulled the contract in 2010 due to concerns over its nuclear program. Iran filed a $4 billion lawsuit for compensation over the failed deal, which is pending review in an international arbitration court in Geneva.

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S-300 is a family of air defense missile systems capable of engaging aerial targets from helicopters to cruise and ballistic missiles. The more capable variants of the system would be capable of engaging aircraft far inside the airspace of neighboring states to Iran, according to analysts.

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Good.

[MADem]

1. This is less about Russia getting the "disarmament spirit" than the realization that

Iran is a short hop over the Caspian Sea from them.

And "What's in a warhead?" depends on whatcha got....