Sea Sparrow and Sidewinder: Expert explained how the Armed Forces decide missile deficits

After modernization, the anti -aircraft is able to shoot SEA Sparrow and Sidewinder rockets. Oleksandr Kovalenko, a military expert on the Air Defense Officer, said the Military Expert of the Information Resistance Group on Channel 24. Kovalenko explained that the Ukrainian air defense forces use installations of various types to counteract or rockets of the Russian Federation, or Drone Kamikadze.

Small, medium and long range SPRs are used mainly to kill missiles of different types - and it is here that there are problems with the presence of shells. However, this deficit is not affected by the fight against Russian drones - this can not be worried, the expert reassured. According to the interlocutor of journalists, there is really a deficit of anti -aircraft missiles both Soviet and Western. Instead, there is a sufficient amount of Soviet production.

Therefore, Ukraine has modernized the old Buk SPRs and the CUBC so that they can shoot RIM-7 SEA Sparrow and AIM-9 Sidewinder. Thanks to such actions, there will be no problems with the missiles - the shells of the specified type in the Western arsenals are enough. "About the anti-rakket-we really have some problems with anti-aircraft missile complexes, especially Soviet-type, which are scarce and end. On the other hand, the MDC" Buk "," cube "is now being modernized.

This is an opportunity to use the platform that we have enough. for missiles that our partners have enough, ”Kovalenko explained. Another aspect of counteracting the air attacks of the Russian Federation is the fight against Drone-Kamikadze Shahd-136, which are effectively confused by the Gepard anti-aircraft guns and small arms. That is, you do not need to use deficient air defense missiles against the drones, ”the TV channel was air.

It should be noted that since December 2023, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation regularly inflicted massive rocket and okory blows across Ukraine. For example, on December 29, an attack was used using 158 shells: 36 of them-drones-Kamikadze, the rest-rockets of different types. The explosions were heard in Kiev, Kharkiv, Odessa, Lviv, the military administrations reported. In the air force they stated that 114 targets were shot down, 27 drones were 27, and the rockets were 87.

On January 1 and 2, 2024, new attacks of the Russian Federation took place: January 1-90 Dronov-Kamikadze (destroyed 87), on January 2-about 100 missiles (missiles ( 69 shot) and 35 drones (all knocked down). We remind that on the night of January 22 to 23 the Russians hit the Ukrainians with 41 missiles of different types: X-101, C-300/C-400, "Iskander-M", X-22, X-59. In Kharkiv, the Russian rocket destroyed the entrance of an apartment building.