Iran deploying S-300 missile systems around nuclear facilities in Fordow

[nadeemkhan110]

The Islamic Republic of Iran deploying the S-300PMU2 batteries around nuclear facilities in Fordow. Fordow, near the city of Qom, is the site of an underground uranium enrichment facility at a former Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps base.

Iran intends to harden these facilities against probable air attack by the United States or Israel. The S-300PMU2 long range, Surface-to-Air Missile (SAM) system are deployed to protect Iranian state and military facilities from air attacks.

The S-300 SAMs currently being delivered are an upgraded version of the weapons systems initially ordered by Iran in 2010. In July 2015, Russian Presidential Aide Vladimir Kozhin announced that Russia would update the S-300 SAMs to meet specific Iranian needs without, however, offering technical details.

Russia was forced to cancel the delivery of the weapons in June 2010 due to a United Nations Security Council resolution imposing sanctions — which included a ban on the sale of hi-tech weapons. After the cancellation of the arms deal, Iran demanded $4 billion in compensation from the Russian state.
Source: http://defence-blog.com/news/iran-d...tems-around-nuclear-facilities-in-fordow.html

 

[Fafnir]

Seems more than a bit pointless to deploy them there now.

 

[Rukarl]

This was more of a psychological warfare move against Iran's enemies.
In reality, these mobile systems are not permanently based anywhere, they move them around all the time. And Fordo does not even need such protection that much as it is too heavily protected given it is within a mountain.

 

[Ibrahim2006]

 

[Arminkh]

No they didn't. I love the mind games Iran military plays:

http://www.janes.com/article/63410/iran-has-not-deployed-s-300-to-fordow-as-claimed

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Iran has not deployed S-300 to Fordow as claimed
Jeremy Binnie, London and Sean O'Connor, Indianapolis - IHS Jane's Defence Weekly
02 September 2016

An Iranian 5P85TE2 TEL was seen for the first time in the footage shown by Iranian television on 28 August, but it was not at Fordow as claimed. Source: simanews.ir via RT
Satellite imagery obtained by IHS Jane's shows Iran has not deployed an S-300 long-range air defence system to the Fordow uranium enrichment facility as claimed.

Iranian media reported on 28 August that one of the S-300 systems that Russia began delivering earlier this year had been deployed to Fordow, which was constructed inside a mountain to protect it against aerial attack.

The claim was seemingly supported by footage showing a transporter-erector launcher (TEL) and 64N6 battle management radar from the system. While a 64N6 was shown in a disassembled state during the Army Day parade in April, this is the first time an Iranian S-300 TEL has been seen.

Some of the footage could be geolocated to the Fordow area, but the shots showing the S-300 components could not.

Satellite imagery of what is believed to be an air defence training base in Tehran's eastern outskirts on 20 and 26 August showed two S-300 batteries, each with four TELs and a 30N6 engagement radar. They were supported by a single 64N6.

All the TELs were deployed in battery formations on 20 August, but by 26 August one had been moved close to the 64N6 so that the two components were aligned in the same way as those seen in the Iranian television footage. A water tower seen behind the S-300 components in the footage also matched one just to the east of the air defence base in Tehran.

It is still unclear whether the Iranian systems are the S-300PMU1 or the almost identical S-300PMU2 with longer-range 48N6E2 missiles.

When asked in March by the Wall Street Journal whether Iran was getting the S-300PMU1, Sergei Chemezov, the CEO of Russia's Rostec state corporation, said, "Yes, they gave the conditions, and said they need only an S-300PMU1."

Chemezov appeared to contradict himself in June.

 

[drmeson]

How many batteries are purchased ?