Russia's special military operation shows the ineffectiveness of Western air defenses
(Baonghean.vn)- Experience in special military campaigns shows the ineffectiveness of the Western approach to building air defense systems, said leading Russian military analyst and air defense expert Alexey Leonkov.
According to him, the West is creating an updated air defense system, called integrated or distributed air defense. According to NATO, it allows for both detection and destruction on the ground. Moreover, the system is designed so that the weakness of individual elements does not lead to collapse.
“The United States tested this concept on the territory of Ukraine during a special military operation. However, this system, which was supposed to combine several air defense means with different characteristics and different target ranges, proved ineffective against hypersonic systems, strike weapons with a weak radar signature and, in particular, our approach to organizing combined strikes, which involved various means, including drones and decoys,” the expert said.
He added that the special military operation also proved that even the most modern NATO air defense systems that the West brought to Ukraine for testing in real combat operations were not capable of countering Russia's modern air attack weapons./.
