Can Russian air defense intercept Storm Shadow missiles: expert response (video)

Panic of the invaders, as the military-political observer Alexander Kovalenko says, is related to the possibilities of weapons that British allies gave us. Missiles are able to bypass even state -of -the -art sky protection systems. Last week, the UK for the first time in a full -scale war was provided to Ukraine by long -range Storm Shadow missiles. On May 14, a military-political observer Alexander Kovalenko told whether the Russian air defense system will be able to intercept them.

According to him, the missiles that the UK provided to us can not only effectively affect the targets at great distances, but also capable of bypassing even the most modern Russian air defense systems. "Why does the occupiers panic? First of all, this is due to the fact that rockets have the ability to flight at low altitudes- from 30 m, and additional systems allow them to be highly efficiently bent relief.

Russian air defense, in particular, conditionally modern, such as C- 400, the possibility of detecting and destroying objects begins with a strap of 40 m. That is, these missiles are virtually unattainable - and if we talk about the likelihood of beating such - this should be some unique case, ”says Alexander Kovalenko.

Ukraine and was counting on the help from the US in the form of farm missiles ATCMS, British Storm Shadow proved to be nothing worse, and in some aspects in general better above. Part in the form of 450 kg of armor -piercing type. We will remind, on May 11 it was reported that the UK handed over to Ukraine winged missiles Storm Shadow.