In Russia, they announced the reassignment of military air defense to the command of the Aerospace Forces (PKS).
On February 27, the BBC writes about this with reference to TASS.
As part of the Russian PKS, there is its own air defense, which is engaged in the protection of strategic facilities. In contrast, army air defense protects troops at the front – in particular, during hostilities.
For each type of air defense, its own anti-aircraft systems are produced – for example, the mobile “Tors” and “Shells” at the front belong to the military air defense, and the stationary S-300 or S-400, which allegedly defended the air base in Engels during the alleged attacks of Ukrainian drones. , were part of the PKS air defense.
These troops have different tasks and tactics – some move along with the army, others are tied to protected objects. Therefore, on the one hand, it would be logical to keep military air defense under the command of the army command, and not to transfer control of the PKS belonging to another type of armed forces.
After all, such a reform would mean serious structural changes in the command vertical of the army air defense, which will now have a new chief. One of the important questions is: how will the “chain of command” change now – the sequence of persons and structures through which the order is transmitted? In Russia, the ground forces already face delays in decision-making, and it is possible that there will now be more of them in the air defense.
In addition, these changes simplify the organization of the supply and training of specialists for army air defense.
In addition, it is possible that this will affect the quality of the actions of its officers, who will depend not on army commanders who do not always understand the tasks and capabilities of air defense systems well, but on the same specialists, the newspaper writes.
Source: Racurs
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