Russia uses rubber S-400 to practice in Crimea
Russian defense forces in Crimea have just successfully organized a drill with many special weapons, including the rubber S-400 system.
A large-scale exercise in the Crimean peninsula was carried out by Russia on June 6. During the exercise, the S-400, along with the Pantsir-S1 air defense system, repelled a missile attack from the Black Sea.
The Pantsir-S1 and S-400 were then redeployed using inflatable mock-ups to distract enemy attack forces.
According to the Russian military representative in Crimea, Viktor Sevostianov, Russia has currently deployed two missile defense units on the peninsula, including the S-400 and Pantsir-S1.
One unit was deployed in 2017 and the other in early 2018.
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Military expert Igor Korotchenko, Editor-in-Chief of the magazine "National Defense" commented that the nature of modern wars has fundamentally changed. The military focuses its efforts mainly on air and space warfare, using high-precision weapons.
The first strike in large-scale wars will apply high-precision weapons, in which the air force carries guided air-to-ground missiles, launched from outside the air defense zone, combined with cruise missiles launched from land, sea, and air.
This trend is clearly marked in all the recent campaigns that the United States and its allies have been involved in, such as the hostilities in Iraq, Libya, Yugoslavia and Syria. Now, along with the development of military technical progress, this trend will only increase.
Therefore, countries today focus on developing air defense and missile defense systems and consider them of key importance, firmly protecting the country from the very beginning.
Because of this, the Russian military leadership decided to deploy the S-400 missile system on the territory of Crimea, in order to effectively protect the peninsula from any attack," said Mr. Igor Korotchenko.
According to this military expert, the S-400 Triumph is capable of dealing with all modern threats. Their deployment in Crimea is very important to prevent destructive strikes on the peninsula from the direction of the Black Sea region.
Mr. Korotchenko said that in recent months, the Black Sea has seen active naval activity by a number of NATO member countries, especially the United States. Previously, they did not appear on such a large scale in this sea area, but now their presence is regular.
It should be noted that modern US destroyers and cruisers are equipped with Tomahawk cruise missiles and other high-precision weapons. The deployment of S-400 and Pantsir-S1 is to ensure the ability to respond, including to NATO's high-precision weapons attacks from the sea - Mr. Igor Korotchenko emphasized.
