Ria Novosti--Deliveries of S-300 missile defense systems to Venezuela have been delayed, but will go ahead, an official at Rosoboronexport, Russia's state-owned arms export monopoly, said on Tuesday.
In November, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said that Russia had agreed to lend his country over $4 billion to buy weapons.
"There is a contract with Venezuela but it's not yet being implemented," Rosoboronexport special programs director Nikolai Dimidyuk told reporters.
"Venezuela has rescheduled the dates several times, but now we have agreed on a timeframe for the deliveries," he added.
Venezuela is one of the biggest buyers of Russian arms.
The S-300 is a big nightmare for USAF. There is also a new Chinese variant of the same technology called the FT-2000.
The US Patriot missile system is good, but it lacks the passive engagement and active noise radiation techniques of the S-300 which gives the S-300 an edge over US Patriot system.
On the other hand the patriot has track-via-missile (TVM) guidance system and midcourse correction commands which the Russian haven't mastered yet.
The Patriot advanced capability PAC-3 missile is ahead in target engagement and phased array radar, but it lacks electronics warfare capabilities like the S-300s passive lock-on and active X and C band noise generators which can totally blind an incoming aircraft.
This S-300 is truly 21st century electronics warfare. The Russians are also developing the new S-500 system to replace the existing S-400 which is not exported form Russia.
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