The US appears on the verge of striking the Syrian government after it allegedly carried out a gas attack in a suburb of Damascus over the weekend.
Russia has vowed to shoot down any US missile strike and repeatedly warned that any such strike on Syria could escalate hostilities.
"Russia vows to shoot down any and all missiles fired at Syria," President Donald Trump tweeted on Wednesday. "Get ready Russia, because they will be coming, nice and new and 'smart!'"
Russia's most advanced air defense system in Syria is the S-400, a very capable missile-defense system somewhat comparable to the US's MIM-104 Patriot, according to CSIS.
The photos below are of S-400 systems getting unloaded and set up at Russia's Hmeimim Air Base in Syria in 2015.
Here's what the US could face if Trump decides to strike:
The S-400 Triumf, which NATO calls the SA-21 Growler, is a fourth-generation long-range missile-defense system that Russia began developing in 1993.
It's the successor to the S-200 and S-300 air-defense systems and became operational in 2007.
Source: CSIS
It's capable of taking out aircraft, drones, cruise missiles, and ballistic missiles in the terminal phase.
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However, it does not have hit-to-kill ballistic-missile-defense technology, which means it can't physically collide with incoming warheads.
Source: CSIS
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