Defendable Crimea: How many ATACAMS missiles need to complete Russian air defense

Dut the aerodrome in Dzhanka military observer Alexander Kovalenko considers proof that ATACMS missiles are not on his teeth. And he calculates how much they need to open the sky above the Crimea on the night of April 17 in the area of ​​Dzhankoy, a blow to the Russian aerodrome was struck, where, in addition to aviation, there was a Division of the air defense air defense, which consisted of the C-400 SPS complexes.

The result of the impact was the destruction of four starting SPS C-400; At least three radar, namely 92H2E, 91H6E and unique "foundation-M" complex. This blow immediately raised the question: how many ATACMS needed to completely disable the Crimean air defense? Let's understand. After struck by the airfield in the Dzhanko area, Russian propaganda platforms immediately began to report that Ukraine had struck ATACMS ballistic missiles, but they were all beaten.

Then they began to appear that not everyone . . . And after a while, Russian patriots and completely covered panic moods-in connection with the real results of the impact. Subsequently, a video was posted, which shows the start of the six MGM-140B Block 1A missiles, which was taken to the junk blow. On this basis, the potential of the impact was six ballistic missiles. For its part, six sections of the fire -spreading sections were clearly recorded in Dzhanko's aerodrome.

That is, all 6 rockets flew to their destination.

The effectiveness of this blow was maximum, but the question arises: how much can in general need rockets of this type to disable Russian air defense in Crimea? Russian anti-air defense in temporarily occupied Crimea is represented by the following units: yes, Russian air defense is represented by two regiments, on weapons of which are complexes of a large radius of action of the SPS C-400, which we are interested in the main means of intercepting all kinds type.

We witnessed how effectively Division was destroyed by the Six ATACMS missile. In fact, thanks to this "incident" the north of the temporarily occupied peninsula of Crimea is uncovered from the penetration and span of any medium- and large objects. In the case of the destruction of the division in Theodosius, the route from the north to the southeast of the Crimea or a very interesting direction, taking into account some illegal logistics structures, is generally unveiled.

On the other hand, this illegal building of the Bridge type is under the cover of 1537 ZRP (Novorossiysk). But it's not even about them. In general, the strike of six MGM-140B Block 1A rockets on the airfield near Dzhanko was brought out from the capable state of the entire Division of the 18th ZRP. That is, it is a minimum indicator of effective involvement of this component, and should be considered as a basic one.

In other words, the impact of other divisions requires a shock potential of six rockets or more. I think you do not need to be a genius to calculate that in general, at least 24 MGM-140B Block 1A rockets are required to remove the component of a large radius of the SPS type C-400 in Crimea. But again, this is if the goal is complete neutralization of the C-400 SPS in Crimea.

Strokes on the airfields of Berdyansk and Lugansk in 2023, as well as on Dzhankoysky in 2024, showed that at first glance, not a new ballistic missile MGM-140B Block 1A is an unattainable object for Russian conventionally modern air defense. The low interception of these missiles makes them a serious threat to the C-400 SPS, and the result may be a complete "shutdown" of Crimea from the component of aircraft of a large radius of action.