Aircraft
Russia To Deliver Advanced Intercept Missiles to Iran by Year-end
S-300PMU-2 air defense systems that were intended for Syria are being diverted.
An S-300PMU-2 system on display, with its 48N6E2 and 96N9 missiles in the foreground. (Photo: Vladimir Karnozov)
An S-300PMU-2 system on display, with its 48N6E2 and 96N9 missiles in the foreground. (Photo: Vladimir Karnozov)

Russia and Iran have signed a renewed contract for Russia to supply long-range surface-to-air missiles (SAMs) to Tehran, officials confirmed. Instead of the older S-300PMU-1 in the original contract, Tehran will get the newer S-300PMU-2 Favorite (NATO reporting name SA-20B Gargoyle). The deal is estimated at $1 billion, with deliveries slated for completion within 18 months. Moscow and Tehran also signed agreements on rotorcraft, and more could follow, now that economic sanctions on Iran are being lifted after Tehran signed the international agreement to curb its development of nuclear weapons.


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