"Onion Rings" airbar

On Tuesday, May 16, Russian troops used about 27 missiles during the shelling of Kiev - they were all beaten, the Ukrainian leadership said. Whether it is a portable SCRC or advanced Patriot System - Ukraine now has a number of opportunities to protect its sky. The military analyst Philip Ingrem said that air defense in the Kiev region is effective quite effectively, which is a psychological support for the residents of the Ukrainian capital.

In February 2022, massive missile attacks of the occupying troops became unexpected for many people of Kyivans, but after 14 months Ukraine was already more prepared for similar events. On the night of May 16, Putin's troops released six hypersonic missiles "Dagger", nine winged rockets "Caliber", ten rockets of land base (C-400, "Iskander-M"), there were two more C-300 missiles in Donetsk region, as well as drones. All this rocket cascade was destroyed.

Ukraine now knocks down about 96-98% of Russian missiles, thanks to a number of components of air defense, which function as a whole, explained the ingred. "The air defense system consisting of several layers is like a series of bulbous air defense rings," he explained. At the lower level, there is an automatic weapon similar to the portable British Starsstreak.

According to the analyst, many military personnel with such weapons can be in the outskirts of cities or areas where critical infrastructure is located. In addition, Ukraine has several medium-range systems, such as Soviet C-300 and others. This is the average level of the total air defense system that resists winged rockets and drones. At the upper level is the Patriot, which was transferred to the US and Germany.

"It's like a series of protective domes that rise to different height and different distance around the goal you try to protect," the expert explained. At the same time, despite the efficiency of such a system, fragments of trapped missiles fall and can injure people. "The sequence of events is that Western intelligence captures the launch of a rocket - and there is a mechanism that allows you to transmit these data in real time directly to Ukrainians," the expert explained.

Determine where the missiles were running, the probable type of rocket and trajectory. Depending on the type of rocket, Ukrainian defenders have from a few minutes to an hour to destroy air targets. The ingredate says that if the air defense systems were located along the borders, the Russian aircraft aircraft would have to take off at an even greater distance than it would help in the counter -offensive.