The S-300, particularly with the 48N6 missile, is a very capable
system, but it really is not much, if any, of a threat to US aircraft
near their carriers. The best placement in Syria results in coverage
of maybe 70% of Israeli airspace. About the same amount of
Jordainian space is covered. There is pretty good potential to
reach into the western region of Iraq, even into the Mosul area,
but not as far as Fallujah. Al Asad is covered like a glove.

But out into the Med they only give coverage out to about the
eastern tip of Cyprus, I doubt many carrier groups would bottle
themselves up between Syria and Cyprus, even without the threat
of the Favorit.

Also, although the Favorit seems to be a very nice system, it has
been around for a while and does not have much of a combat
record. It remains to be seen how much of a threat it really is.
In particular, the advertisements claim a better probability of kill
against a cruise missile target than a non-maneuvering aircraft,
and that seems kind of wrong. Kind of throws the claimed
performance of the system in doubt to me.

C!