In the US, they admitted that their air defense is outdated: Pentagon wants to follow an example from Ukraine - the media

According to journalists, now the enemy can massively use winged missiles and drones. The available US air defense system will cope well with such a threat. The United States of America has one of the most developed air defense systems that rely on Patriot, Thaad, SM-6, SM-3, GMD. However, it is conceptually outdated. About it reports Defense Express. According to journalists, now the enemy can massively use winged missiles and drones.

The available US air defense system will cope well with such a threat. In this case, there is a large imbalance of the cost of intercepting with the cost of hostile means. The article for Breaking Defense states that the enemy of the state, in the example of Iran and Russia, can use cheap systems that are produced in very large numbers. This provides a massive simultaneous attack. Moreover, such opportunities are reported in proxy, for example, Hussites.

Drones are increasingly being used, and winged missiles displace ballistic. They are also added to aerobalist, high -speed, hypersonic missiles, and Ballistics gets the opportunity to maneuver. The material states that the US missile defense system was built in such a way as to knock down the target as far as possible. In addition, it was created with a focus on opposition to ballistic missiles. This means that the most expensive air defense tool begins first, and then the cheapest.

The publication writes that such a system is justified when it is necessary to reflect the attack of ballistic weapons. However, it is unlikely to be able to work as effectively as 40 years ago when it was created. The target at a range of 1000 km is possible with a drone worth several thousand dollars. And 2000 km ballistic missiles are now easy to appear in ordinary terrorists. It is reported that US officials want to take an example from the air defense system of Ukraine.

Yes, the threats in the first echelon of defense knock down mobile groups whose work is cheap, and only at the end of the Patriot or other expensive counterpart. Earlier it was reported that the United States Air Force intends to get rid of outdated A-10 Warhoggs. These planes could be provided to Ukraine, but Kiev is not interested. US Air Force representatives believe that A-10 is too vulnerable to survive in modern conflict.