Azerbaijan claims to have killed or wounded more than 2,000 Armenian troops during fierce fighting in the contested Nagorno-Karabakh region. Armenia had disputed such high numbers. Around 2,300 “enemy personnel” have been killed or wounded since fighting broke out on Sunday, Azerbaijan’s Defense Ministry reported. Officials added that an Armenian S-300 air defense missile system... 

Despite the Russian Defence Ministry’s clarifications, Western media are still racking their brain over the Su-57 fifth-generation jets’ mission in Syria. Speaking to Sputnik, political observers of Syrian origin shed light on the message the Russian-made Su-57, S-300 and S-400 have sent to the US and Israel in the Arab Republic. The Russian Su-57 fifth-generation stealth fighters have... 

The Chief Rabbi of Russia, Berel Lazar, has denounced Russian President Vladimir Putin’s decision to send the S-300 anti-aircraft missile system to Syria as a “mistake” and expressed the hope that Israel could “deal” with the threat. EUTIMES inserted commentary: The question we would like to ask is why would a rabbi get involved into politics and military affairs like this? When is the last... 

The Russian government has ordered the arming of Syria with new S-300 anti-aircraft missiles—which can shoot down all but the latest US “stealth” planes, and which will be deadly to Israeli F-15 and F-16 jets—in direct response to last week’s atrocity where a Russian aircraft was shot down after being used as a “cover” by the Jewish state’s air force. In a statement released by Russian... 

Perhaps the most surprising news surrounding the US, British and French strike on Syria Saturday morning was the report that the country’s Air Defense Force managed to shoot down just shy of 70% of the Western cruise missiles launched. Sputnik looks at how the Syrians managed to do it. The Western attack, executed this morning at 4:00 am Syrian time on April 14, saw US Navy warships in the Red... 

While we have been quite defensive of Russia for being a sovereign state minding their own business what they are doing now is totally unacceptable and scandalous! After arming Syria with state of the art S-300 missile defense systems, they then went on and armed Iran with the same weapons despite a UN ban prohibiting Russia from selling such powerful weapons to Iran. Now guess what Putin is doing!... 

Russian General Igor Konashenkov vows to shoot down US jets violating Syrian government’s airspace, warns that “stealth” F-22 jets will face a horrible reality when facing S-300 and S-400 systems. Russia’s Defense Ministry has cautioned the US-led coalition of carrying out airstrikes on Syrian army positions, adding in Syria there are numerous S-300 and S-400 air defense systems... 

The first delivery of the Russian S-300 surface-to-air missile system has arrived in Iran, the country’s Foreign Ministry has announced. “We had already announced that despite several changes in the time of delivery, the deal is on its path of implementation and today I should announce that the first part of this equipment has arrived in Iran and delivery of other parts will continue,” Foreign... 

Turkish media outlets are concerned that Russia is beefing up its military presence around the country following the shootdown of a Russian bomber over Syrian airspace, according to Hurriyet Daily News. In particular, it says, “Russia sent 14 helicopters to Armenia and deployed them to the Erebuni Air Base near the capital Yerevan on December 8.Seven of these helicopters are armored Mi-24 attack... 

On November 25, Russia sent the most powerful vessel of the Black Sea Navy, the Moskva cruiser, to the coastal area of Syria’s Latakia Province. The cruiser is equipped with Fort air defense system that is similar to Russia’s renowned S-300 anti-aircraft complex. Soon afterwards, Turkey sent two of its submarines, Dolunay and Burakreis, to the same area to watch the Russian vessel. How... 

Pravda.Ru conducted an interview with Colonel Sergei Khatylev, former chief of Russian anti-aircraft missile forces, to learn an expert opinion about state-of-the-art anti-aircraft missile systems of the Russian Army. “Anti-aircraft missile system S-400 “Triumf” is second to none in the world and is recognized as the most advanced system of the kind. The idea to create a long-range... 

Following Russia’s decision to lift a ban on supplying S-300 missile systems to Iran, the Israeli PM has called President Putin to express his “grave concerns” – and received a detailed explanation of defensive weapons and the logic behind Moscow’s move. According to a statement released by the Kremlin, Vladimir Putin “gave a detailed explanation of the logic behind Russia’s decision…emphasizing... 

A Russian S-300 anti-aircraft missile system. Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a presidential decree paving the way for the long-overdue delivery of S-300 missile system to Iran, the Kremlin says. Putin’s decree lifts a ban on “the shipment from Russia to Iran” of the S-300 missiles, the Kremlin said in a statement on Monday. The decree lifts the ban on transit through the... 

This is the first photo of Iran’s homegrown Bavar-373 missile defense system. Iran has finished manufacturing a homegrown missile defense system, which is as powerful as the S-300 system that Russia refused to deliver to the Islamic Republic. The Fars news agency published on Friday the first images of the long-range Bavar-373 missile defense system, saying that it is meant to carry the message of... 

The Russian S-300 anti-aircraft missile defense system Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov has confirmed that President Vladimir Putin will discuss military-technological cooperation with his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani. The Iranian and Russian presidents plan to hold a bilateral meeting in the Kyrgyz capital of Bishkek on September 13 on the upcoming sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation...