"We are not fighting with a banana republic." What weapon will receive the Armed Forces to protect Ukraine and "lightning breakthroughs" of the defense of the Russian Federation - Defense Express

Defense Express editor -in -chief - how will the arrival of different complexes, including NASAMS, will help us? Will it be a local "closing of the sky" in some other areas of the front, above some other cities and towns? -First, it should give that our air defense will become denser. Video of the day we do not have western fighters.

And in fact, for example, in NATO countries, it is on fighters, probably, 75%, if not more, tasks for air defense - the destruction of both enemy aircraft, helicopters and winged missiles. We have such a situation that the fighters do not give, they intensify air defense, and any complex is extremely important to us. Let's be honest: there is a war, and maybe some of the domestic anti-aircraft missile complexes have been destroyed or at least they need to be repaired.

We remember that they are over 30 years old. And so any intensification of our air defense is extremely important. -There are Slygers, and many different types of portable anti-aircraft missile complexes. Is it all the diversity, probably difficult and maintained? On the other hand, this is the same flap blanket: there is one standing here, there is the other, there is a third. Is it rather us a plus or minus? - About the MANA: exactly not in the plus, not in minus.

They are not served in such a short perspective. As they were handed over, they [can] lie in their containers for many years. That is, there is no sharp problem with the MANAs because they are, and after the victory will be resolved, for example, which one or two samples leave. This is not a problem in principle. Regarding the transfer of anti-aircraft missile complexes of other types. Yes, I would like them to be the same.

But it should be understood that anti-aircraft missile complexes in Western countries produce quite a few, and there is simply no number to convey the same type, even in the United States. The land component of anti-aircraft missile complexes in the United States is two species. This is a Petriot (Patriot; one battery for a billion dollars) and things such as Avenger (Avenger - English), which is a SUV Kamvi (hmmwv - English), to which the missile from Slyger was added.

That is, they do not have the opportunity to pass such a complex. For example, they have the same Nasams, but several units that perform an extremely strategic task of covering the White House. All. That is, there is no country that can take and give, for example, a dozen SDR. Therefore, we are forced to use such a zoo. And by the way, for our air defense it is natural. If we calculate the types of SPRs used in the Armed Forces, there will be more than 10 units of exclusively Soviet samples.

- That is, our defenders are already able to work in conditions, as you said, the zoo. An interesting detail is that NASAMS is used solely for the missile cover of the White House. So, this system, when it does not reach us, will be able to close the sky above the territory where it will be? - Of course, yes. The point is that all weapons that are passed to us have extremely high or proven or understandable efficiency.

That is, many things that are transmitted to us for the first time are used in the battlefield, but it is clear that these are modern weapons. That is, any Western weapons that are passed to us refers to the modern one. I do not take into account [into account], for example, Soviet samples. It is clear that they are coming from the warehouses. And if you look, the United States did not give us anything from the fact that they do not use right now, right now they do not have in service.

They were given M777 by howls specifically because they are more efficient, lighter, mobile and more accurate than the old M198, which are in warehouses in their hundreds of units. They pass modern weapons because they understand that we are not fighting with a banana republic. We are fighting with a country in which the budget for defense in the Russian Federation is equal to the budget of Ukraine. We are fighting with such a country.

Therefore, we are transmitted modern weapons, not that it is not harmful, because it is rust in warehouses. - The Russian propaganda campaign claimed that there is a scrap to Ukraine that it is not working, everything is outdated. This is not confirmed in reality, the Russians re -fake. At the beginning of the new financial year, the US will, respectively, will begin Land League.

Some claim that Ukraine will transfer combat fighters as part of Land League, as soon as our pilots finish training there. Do you also hold this opinion? Do you believe that in the coming months we can have any F-16, F-15 squadles, and some more American aircraft? - Here you can only cross your fingers and hope for what will happen. In order to conduct any such active action from the offensive-such breakthroughs are lightning, you need to have an advantage in the air.

It is extremely difficult for us to achieve the advantage in the air. And let's, again, be honest with ourselves. The number of shock aircraft of the Russian Federation is more than 1000 units as of 2021. To understand how much they oppose: UGDino with official data, in Ukraine somewhere in the early 2020s there were somewhere up to 50 fighters. - The difference is 30 times. - So. And they (Russian - ed. ) Are more modernized because they invested huge renewal money.

As for the aircraft, the same situation as the SPR. Since 1991, Ukraine has not ordered or received any fighter. In my opinion, when we talk about planes and their receipt . . . For example, there will be a wonderful Spark in the form of F-15 and F-16, and F-15 will need not much because it is a specialized aircraft and the F-16- Such a plane, which will be many, which will be the base of our air forces. And still Land League.

That is, we share the issue of re -equipment of our air forces into new planes into two stages - short -term and long -term. Short -term, that is, what is needed right now. These should be planes that are many, which country can transmit, it will not be a problem for it. And the only option is to truly get a soldering in the form of F-15, F-16 from the US, because there are many those planes, they can transfer and rent them.