Russia Expands Its Air Defense Network in Syria
November 30, 2018 - Jennifer Cafarella![](https://understandingwar.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumb-wide/public/ISW%20-%20Russia%20A2AD%20EW%20Syria%20-%20November%202018.png?itok=DqSpE0pX)
Russia has finished an advanced anti-access / area denial (A2AD) network that constrains U.S. freedom of maneuver in Syria and the Eastern Mediterranean Sea. The U.S. and Israel both must be prepared to suppress a larger number of air defense systems and use more expensive stealth aircraft in the theater.