The latest shoe to drop concerning the great Washington/Tehran pact of 2015 (honest to God, this thing has more legs than a centipede) involves a shipment of advanced SAM missiles from Russia. It appears that Vladimir Putin, that man of peace, has authorized the immediate delivery of an unknown number of batteries of S-300 missiles to Iran. Beyond the standard exercise in pot-stirring, this represents both Iran and Russia taking an opportunity to spit in Obama’s face while the world looks on. Secretary of State and Nobel candidate John Kerry phoned the Russian Foreign Ministry to tell them that he was utterly miffed. Obama, out on the 9th hole, couldn’t be reached. The S-300 is a mature surface-to-air missile system in operation since the 80s. It is fully mobile – radar, command and control, and launch vehicles are all truck-mounted and can relocate immediately after a launch, making them difficult to track and target. An S-300 battery consists of six...(Read Full Post)