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An Israeli official said on Wednesday that Israeli Air Force can definitely destroy the S-300 missiles that recently supplied to Syria from Russia.“The operational abilities of the air force are such that those (S-300) batteries really do not constrain the air force’s abilities to act,” The minister for Regional Cooperation Tzachi Hanegbi said.Referring to F-35 Joint Strike Fighters that Israel began receiving from the United States Hanegbi said: “You know that we have stealth fighters, the best planes in the world. These batteries are not even able to detect them.””You know that we have steal...

Al-Assad can sleep a little better these days now that Russia has completed delivery of a new system of long-range S-300 anti-aircraft missiles to Syria. These missiles replace an obsolete system of S-200 missiles that Syria has operated for some time. The S-200s have proven useless in deterring or defeating Israeli air strikes aimed at Iranian military installations in Syria and at Syrian transfer of advanced weapons to its client, Hezbollah, based mainly in Lebanon. The sale — objected to by both Israel and the United States — came in the wake of the destruction of a Russian reconnaissance a...

hen Chinese President Xi Jinping spoke to the 19th Party Congress about the future of Taiwan last year, his message was ominous and unequivocal: “We have firm will, full confidence, and sufficient capability to defeat any form of Taiwan independence secession plot. We will never allow any person, any organization, or any political party to split any part of the Chinese territory from China at any time or in any form.”This remark drew the longest applause of his entire three-hour speech—but it’s not a new message. The invincibility of Chinese arms in the face of Taiwanese “separatists” and the...