Patriot in order: How to continue the February "Aircraft" PKS
The Russian army is attacking the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces with managed airbots (CA) and airlines in different directions, creating a lot of problems. One of the main reasons for the fall of Avdiivka was the mass use of planning bombs. The Armed Forces of the Armed Forces attract all available means to destroy the tactical aviation of the Russian Federation, the carriers of managed bombs, said the Commander of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces General-General Mykola Oleshchuk.
Anti -aircraft missile units, including Patriots, continue to carry out combat missions in frontlines. Ukrainian pilots also destroy the occupiers daily even without the promised F-16 fighters. "The defenders of the Ukrainian sky pay a high price to restrain the aggressor and destroy it in the air, on earth and at sea," the commander said. Despite the professionalism of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces, the extent of the threats of planning bombs increases.
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation have a variety of types of such bombs, and in some of them the range of flights has increased. The most powerful Russian shells are one and a half-ton Fab-1500, which is almost half made up of explosives. The intensity of strikes has not decreased since the beginning of March, but has become wavy, emphasizes the coordinator of the group "Information Resistance", military expert Alexander Kovalenko.
In the first third of March, according to him, 799 discharges were made, and the record month was February - more than 1,500 units. "If nearly 800 bombs have been dropped in 1/3 of a month, then in the next 2/3 months at such an intensity the figure can reach a new record - more than 2,000," the expert warns. Su-34 and SU-35 are the main Russian planes that run the controlled bombs.
In February 2024, the Armed Forces set a record for the destruction of these bombers in the eastern direction: the invaders lost more than ten fighters. Theoretically, the Su-34 or Su-35 can be shot down, but not at a distance of 60-80 km on the front line. Among the versions, Western experts call Patriot SCCs with GEM 2 Radius of 140 km. According to the leading researcher of the State Aviation Museum of Ukraine, Avayexpert Valery Romanenko, Patriot is expensive.
One air defense system costs $ 450-550 million, and one rocket to it-about $ 4 million, CNN reported with reference to Pentagon. Even if the US Congress unlocks a $ 60 billion assistance package, the Armed Forces will receive a rather limited amount of these SPRs, Romanenko said. "It would be nice to get more" patriots ", but you will not cover the entire front line. The Western armies were not ready for the intensive development of war in Ukraine and mass attacks of Russian UAB by fortification.
The whole air defense system consists of three types long -range. In the US and Europe, only Patriot works on an average radius, " - explains the focus a specialist. If you take the S-300 systems, the last type of missiles knocks down the targets at a distance of 150 kilometers. The saturation of the front with aircraft with a cost of up to $ 100 million would allow you to get rid of problems with PCS aircraft and start -ups of planning bombs, he added.
Patriot SC should be at least 40 kilometers from the front line, otherwise the artillery will be obtained. Moreover, it has recently become known about the probable "Ischender" on the installation of the Patriot SAC. OSINT researchers and a number of media outlets have suggested that Ukraine could lose two Patriot launchers near Pokrovsk Donetsk region at the same time.
"It is possible that starting installations and crews that" Iskander "struck 20 miles from the front line, were the same ones that knocked down many Russian planes. The air over the East of Ukraine may have become much safer for Russians," Forbes wrote. . Modern war is very complex and a separate type of weapon will not be a panacea from problems, the expert added.