Drone attacks in Moscow and Crimea: the Armed Forces learned to find gaps in Russian air defense - the media

The attacks of the Armed Forces are becoming more and more successful due to the fact that during the previous attacks, it was possible to study the location and tactics used by the air defense of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. Now the accumulated data is used in practice, said OSINT analyst Kirill Mikhailov.

According to him, if the Russian Federation has not learned to respond to new threats and to change the tactics of the Armed Forces, then how much do not set new air defense in Moscow, the effectiveness will not be added. According to Oleg Ignatov from the International Crisis Group, the Armed Forces intelligence better defines goals, including in Crimea.

Ukraine may have received pictures with air defense batteries and now uses the Air Defense location data to lay the UAV and missile trajectory so that they do not get to the radars, said military expert Yuri Fedorov. According to him, the fact that the Drones of the Armed Forces are free to reach Moscow is proof that the Russian Federation is not suitable. 300 meters from the place of falling of the drone was the SCR "shell C1", designed to protect against UAVs.

However, for his successful work it is necessary that the drone is higher, not at one level, explained military expert Pavel Luzin. The work of the "shell" is impossible without a system of early alert, the expert added. "The Russian air defense of large cities and industrial centers has never been seriously prepared for reflecting the attacks of small UAVs," he explained.

"It is partially offset by the systems of the EW, which protect the Kremlin and other key objects," Luzin said, adding that it was not a panacea. He also evaluates the capabilities of Storm Shadow missiles, which probably attacked Crimea than the possibilities of Russian air defense. Recall that the drone army destroyed 101 units of Russian equipment worth millions of dollars during the week. It was also reported that a new version of Dron-Kamikadze Shahd-149 Gaza is presented in Iran.