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Syria’s Air Defense Can Intercept Incoming Enemy Missiles 10min before Strike

13920610000191_PhotoISyria’s missile defense capability is power enough to intercept any incoming enemy missiles 10 minutes before they reach and strike their targets on Syrian soil, military sources said.
“Syria’s surface-to-sea missiles are capable of targeting any object at sea within a range of 600 to 700 kilometers off the Syrian coasts,” a Syrian army source told FNA in Damascus on Sunday.

The source pointed to the US preparations for using its Cruise and Tomahawk missiles against Syria in coming days, and said, “The US missiles will be identified, traced and destroyed 10 minutes before they can strike any target (in Syria) which means they will be annihilated before reaching the Syrian soil.”

He further reiterated that the Syrian army is fully ready to confront any military attack on Syria.

“The Scud missiles that have been remade and modernized by the Syrian military and missile experts now enjoy a very high precision capability and can target warships or aircraft carriers at sea with pinpoint precision capability…,” the source added.

Another Syrian military source told FNA on Saturday that Syria’s missile defense capability is powerful enough to respond to any possible US-led attack against the Muslim country.

“Syria’s missile defense systems have been developed over the past 20 years and they are powerful and unique covering a specific area each…,” the source said.

“The political circles and analysts reckon that the US will begin its military attack by firing (cruise) missiles from its warships (in the Mediterranean Sea) and then British fighter jets will target Syria’s military bases,” the sources added.

He underlined that the West’s infantry forces are unlikely to invade the Syrian soil because in that case the US and the British troops should wait for their full-fledged massacre and heavy losses.

Also, a senior military analyst said earlier this week that Syria’s supersonic and anti-ship missiles as well as the Lebanese Hezbollah movement will inflict astonishing damage on any invading force, specially the US Navy’s giant warships, adding that the missile capability is working as a deterrent to a US naval attack on Syria.

“The supersonic and long-range anti-ship Yakhont missiles of the Syrian army and the Lebanese Hezbollah (resistance movement) are serious deterrents to a US naval attack by its warships in the Mediterranean Sea,” Dr. Mostafa Zahra, a military analyst and strategic studies expert, told FNA on Monday.

He said that Syria’s Iskandar high-precision ballistic missiles and its anti-ship Scud missiles will also target the US warships in case of a US naval invasion of Syria, reminding that the American military vessels are not equipped with any weapons system to intercept or divert the Syrian anti-ship missiles.

The P-800 Oniks, also known in export markets as Yakhont (in English means ruby or sapphire), is a Russian/Soviet supersonic anti-ship cruise missile developed by NPO Mashinostroyeniya as a ramjet version of P-80 Zubr. The missile has a range of 300 kilometers.

Development of Yakhont missiles officially started in 1983, and by 2001 allowed the launch of the missile from land, sea, air and submarines. The missile has the NATO reporting codename SS-N-26. It is reportedly a replacement for the P-270 Moskit, but possibly also for the P-700 Granit.

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