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One of Ukraine’s few remaining Soviet-made S-300PS long-range air defense systems had been targeted, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced on July 16.
In a statement, the ministry said that the system was targeted with an Iskander-M tactical ballistic missile close to the settlement of Gvardeyskoye in the Odessa region. The strike destroyed two transporter erector launchers, of the 5P85D or the 5P85S type, a fire control radar, likely a 5N63S, in addition to a 5I57A power generator and an unidentified vehicle, according to footage released by the Ministry.
The Iskander-M is said to have a range of nearly 500 kilometers. The highly-maneuverable missile can be armed with different conventional warheads. The missile is guided by a GLONASS-aided inertial navigation system. It can be also equipped with an optical seeker with a digitized scene-mapping area correlator system for terminal guidance.
Around 100 S-300P, S-300PT, S-300PS and S-300V1 batteries were in service with Kiev forces prior to the start of the Russian special military operation in Ukraine more than three years ago. The country received a single S-300PMU battery from Slovakia in the very first few months of the operation.
Most of these S-300 systems have been already destroyed, damaged or captured by the Russian military. Due to these losses, Ukraine’s long-range air defense capabilities deteriorated in a very serious way.
Western attempts to make up for these heavy losses by supplying Ukraine with United States-made MIM-104 Patriot long-range air defense systems have so far fallen short, both in terms of the performance of the system or the number of batteries supplied.
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more good news for russia , china and iran . another bad day for the indigenous people of the middle east . hasbara agents will taint the stories for international media release .
interesting , how is it possible that these weapons werent eliminated long time ago ..detecting enemy radars is the easiest thing in the world
big deal. the us and nato will send 17 batteries of patriots.
n smashited gud n dunnitt