LIBYA is to get Russian S-300 surface-to-air missiles now that sanctions against that country have been lifted, the head of the Russian firm which makes the weapon was quoted Tuesday as saying. Yuri Rodin-Sova, president of the Russian group Oboronitelnye Systemy, said: “I won’t be betraying a secret in saying that Libya has approached us several times” to supply the missiles, Nezavissima Gazeta daily said. “Now, the sanctions are lifted. And the next country lined up (for the S-300) is Libya. They still have a lot of Russian-made military equipment and they want to have it again,” he said. Libya’s decision to hand over, on April 5, two suspects in the bombing of a Pan Am jet over Lockerbie, Scotland, in December 1989, in which 270 people died, led to a UN decision to lift the international sanctions. Russia has already sold the S-300 system to Greece. The Russian manufacturers say the weapon is capable of downing cruise missiles, ballistic missiles or warplanes and is superior to the US Patriot missile.