to deploy along the border with Israel in 'major concern' to US intelligence Russia's paramilitary Wagner Group plans to provide advanced anti-aircraft defense systems to Hezbollah for deployment near Israel's northern border, according to a new report.
Wagner wants to send the Iran-backed Hezbollah terror group the Russian SA-22 Greyhound system, which uses surface-to-air missiles and anti-aircraft artillery to intercept aircraft, two US officials told the Wall Street Journal on Thursday.
Hezbollah, a US-designated terror group backed by Iran, has been exchanging fire with Israeli forces across the country's northern border while Israel wages a ground and air war against Hamas in the southern enclave of Gaza.
The new air defense systems would undoubtedly escalate tensions in the region where Israel's air force is able to operate with relative impunity as Hamas and Hezbollah lack the hardware to shoot its aircraft out of the skies.
Poster Comment:
The Russian S-400 needs more primitive systems to shoot down drones and planes heading for that Russian airbase in Latakia Syria.