< img _ngcontent-sc174 itemprop="contentUrl" src="https://24tv.ua/resources/photos/news/202404/2542298.jpg?v=1713977485000&w=760&h=428&fit=cover&output=webp"> Russia once again announced the supply of new S-500 air defense system for the Russian army. But these complexes are similar to the American Patriot air defense system. However, with a delay of 40 years. A military expert and instructor pilot told Channel about this and Colonel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in reserve Roman Svitan, noting that the Russians have only now decided to separate the functions of the air defense system. So there are two missiles – one against aerotargets and one more against ballistics. By the way, the Minister of Defense of the aggressor country announced the equipping of the Russian army with the S-500. This is all approximately the same as that of the Patriot air defense system. However, the American air defense system did this much earlier. aero, for ballistic purposes it’s quite a long distance,” noted Svitan. For example, it is quite difficult to contain a missile that hits 300 kilometers. At the same time, it “sees” only at a maximum of 50 kilometers. ground locator, it needs to be accompanied. And direct tracking of a missile with a range of 500 kilometers is almost unrealistic. There is a big question here regarding tactical and technical data. They really can be so “analog”. TTD is overpriced as always. Just as the TTD of the S-400 was overestimated at one time, it is a well-painted S-300,” said the military expert. In the end it turned out that half of the mechanisms of the Russian air defense system S- 400 “Triumph” is S-300 mechanisms.That is, the Russians modified the anti-aircraft missile system to certain ranges, and even more – they “drew” parameters that do not exist. Due to the fact that the declared characteristics did not correspond to the actual technical data, a number of countries abandoned such air defense systems . A similar situation, Roman Svitan believes, will happen with the Russian S-500 air defense systems. “They stated, of course, serious ranges, sometimes beyond the possible. How they will show themselves in battle will be clear in the near future,” noted a reserve colonel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. < p>In his opinion, the Russians are unlikely to transfer such complexes to the temporarily occupied Crimea. After all, this will be the first target on which Ukrainian weapons will begin to work.The occupiers are hiding their air defense systems
They are trying to copy Patriot: Svitan assessed the capabilities of the Russian S-500
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