There is a lot of chatter in Israeli media that Turkiye now is aiming for Egypt to sell the Russian S400 AD system to.
Egypt is considering buying Russian S-400 air defence systems from Turkey as part of a strategic move to diversify its sources of arms, raising concerns in Israel. The Israeli news platform Natziv …
www.middleeastmonitor.com
Again there is the stumbling block of Russian government allowing that to happen.
The S400 system is good for air breathing platforms like jet fighters and transport planes. It is no good for ballistic missiles with a range more than 1000km. Even for them it‘s engagement envelope is greatly reduced to below 60km distance.
Our Siper system probably is already better or at least as good as the Russian system.
Since we can not connect the S400 to our radar systems, the stand alone ground radar of the S400 is not going to be anywhere near as effective as our own. So the much hyped 400km range 40N6 missile will never have an effective range close to that acclaimed value. In fact against low flying aircrafts it will be much worse than our hisar class missiles.
Best thing we can do is to sell it back to Russia since they are currently short of AD systems, if that is not going to create a rift between us and Ukraine and the West.
The Missiles on their own, the ones that S400 uses, are useless to us too since they are specifically engineered to be fired from Russian transport-launch containers and guided by the distinct radar and command-and-control architecture of the S-400 system.
So if we are really serious about the F35 acquisition, the best solution is destroy the buggers or use them as target practice for our missiles.
If not serious about F35s, then stick them in Gaziantep and Hatay mountains in well protected underground positions covering hundreds of kilometres of effective range in the lower Syrian plains.
There is always the option to send them over to protect Kurecik!
