Old Patriot against New "Iskander": Does Ukrainian Air Force Efficiency Against Ballistic Missiles

The Head of Communications Department of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces Yuriy Ignat, said that it is more difficult for Ukrainian air defense to knock down Russian ballistic missiles because the enemy modernized its equipment. "We see that when the Patriot systems have emerged, the good results of the" daggers "began to be shown, there was a" spark ". Now it is more difficult to do, because the enemy still modernizes ballistic missiles.

Of course, Ukraine is shared with Western partners with this information," he added. According to a military expert, Lieutenant General Igor Romanenko, Russian missiles have technically learned to bypass the areas of their destruction with Ukrainian air defense. "Russia really modernizes its own missiles. The Russian military-industrial complex has reached the fact that rockets can fly at low altitude.

Due to this, they are more likely to pass the lesion area-and the lesion zone itself has actually decreased. Especially since we have a few patriot batteries, and in general, there are no means of transparent. Flying in an arc: first, and then rapidly falling down on the target. The military-political observer of the "Information Resistance" group Alexander Kovalenko adds that the Patriot available in Ukraine has not undergone a quality modernization since their creation in the 1980s.

"We have received the Patriot version, which in recent years have not passed any modernization, they have not improved. But the enemy, having the appropriate experience, watching how his rockets are stuck, constantly tries to modernize and improve them. In the navigation systems, in the target and other points, the Russian MIC intelligence was improved during this period, ”the focus told the focus. It should be reminded that the first Patriot Battery arrived in Ukraine in March-April 2023.

They were transferred to Ukraine jointly by the United States and Germany. In the future, Germany provided two more Patriot batteries: in December 2023 and in July 2024. The Netherlands also handed over two launchers in cooperation with other countries, as well as missiles to Patriot systems. Since February 2022, Russia has been trying to modernize its own missiles. "Earlier, the Russians believed that missiles 9m723" Iskander "and X-47M2" dagger "is almost impossible to intercept.

Former Minister of Defense, and now the secretary of the Russian Council Sergey Shoiga at one time said that" dagger Patriot, these myths began to be dispelled. According to him, almost all Russian missiles gather from the western components. In Russia, there is no rocket that would not have Western circuits, microchips, semiconductors and more. Russian microelectronics - both technology and production - was actually stuck in the Paleolithic.

They are simply not able to provide high -tech equipment for their missiles, so they always rely on Western technologies. "Today, these components come to Russia by smuggling. Yes, it affects the price, yes, it affects the terms of production, but in one way or another they receive these components and make missiles. Expert.

Following a full -scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the US and the EU have introduced strict export restrictions on semiconductors, aviation components and other double -use technologies that can be used for military purposes. This forces Russia to look for bypass, for example, through intermediary countries, such as China or Turkey, or to develop its own production, which is still not effective enough due to technological backwardness.

It should be reminded that Russian invaders made a combined blow to Ukraine rockets and "Shahaneda". As a result of the attack, one person was killed, several more were injured. We will add that as a result of the missile attack of Russia in Kiev, the building was seriously damaged, which housed the editorial boards of the TV channels of the state -owned enterprise "Multimedia Platform of Ukraine". As a result, several TV channels were injured. The rescuer is currently working on the spot.