Ahead of the Game: Russia Moving  pretty Fast in Syria Than US Media Can Report 

2) Deployment of S-400 Surface-to-Air Missile System
“[…] in political terms the S-400 offers the Assad regime insurance against either a Western no-fly zone or an anti-Assad air campaign. This means, in effect, that ISIS (also known as ISIL and Daesh) and other Syrian rebels will need to defeat Assad (and Russia) on their own, without the direct kinetic support of any of their allies,” the article reads.

#SYRIA #FOOTAGE S-400 AA missile system deployed at #Hmeymim airbase https://t.co/CAeRBRl4JJ pic.twitter.com/zjOBLVdXAP

— Минобороны России (@mod_russia) November 26, 2015

​“The S-400 gives Russia a practical veto over any Western action against Assad.”

The writer however recognized that the S-400 Triumf (NATO codename SA-21 Growler), a hostile to flying machine and against rocket framework, which is equipped for capturing a wide range of cutting edge air weaponry, including fifth-era warplanes, and also ballistic and cruise  missiles at a most extreme scope of about 250 miles, has as of now been “delivered, deployed and put on air defense combat duty at Russia’s Hmeymim airbase in Syria.”

#SYRIA S-400 AA missile system delivered, deployed and put on air defence combat duty at #Hmeymim airbase pic.twitter.com/JXZ3hky5Wm — Минобороны России (@mod_russia) November 26, 2015