Ukraine’s air defense cannot shoot down Russian missiles flying on a ballistic trajectory, and a number of other missiles.
The Ukrainian air defense (AD) effectively fires Russian cruise missiles, but has no way against missiles flying on a ballistic trajectory, and some other missiles. This was said in an interview on Channel 24 by Yuri Ignat, a representative of the Air Force Command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
The Air Force spokesman specified that the Armed Forces of Ukraine are armed with the Buk-M1 and S-300 systems. These are anti-aircraft guided missiles that can shoot down both aircraft and cruise missiles. However, it does matter which missiles the Russians attack.
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Caliber (3M14) – sea-based cruise missile (which the Russians attack from the Black Sea),
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X-101 / X-555 / X-55 – air-launched cruise missiles,
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R-500 (9M728) – ground-based cruise missile from the Iskander-K complex,
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X-59 – air-to-ground guided missile,
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Kh-35 – air, sea or coastal anti-ship missile
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9M723 – ballistic missile Iskander-M,
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9M79M – Tochki-U missile
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MLRS missiles,
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X-22 – supersonic long-range air-launched cruise anti-ship missile,
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R-800 – shore-based cruise missile Oniks,
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X-47 – hypersonic aeroballistic missile Kinzhal,
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Kh-31P – aviation anti-radar missile.
“We are not firing ballistic missiles. Specifically, Iskander-M – these are 9M723 ballistic missiles, which were used by the enemy at the beginning of the war. In fact, the Russians spent their entire strategic supply of Iskander-M at the beginning of the war, so they began to use outdated complexes. Tochka-U. Through Kramatorsk train station, for example. Also, unfortunately, there is no way to intercept the missiles MLRSjust like Tornado“, – said Ignat.
According to him, all these missiles fly fast, along a ballistic trajectory and really fall on the target with a very high speed.
“To shoot down the fallen, special anti-aircraft missile systems are needed. We also have S-300 anti-aircraft guided missiles, which are used by the invaders on ground targets in the frontline zone at a distance of up to 150 kilometers , to ballistics,” the spokesperson said. Air force.
Ignat explained that the greater the distance from the launch site of such missiles, the greater the error. “Therefore, they often end up in the wrong place, and civilians die. In this application, it is nothing but a weapon of terrorism,” he stressed.
Rocket X-22 although it is classified as a cruise missile, its speed is 4-5 thousand kilometers per hour. The Russians launched it from a very high altitude, and when hitting the target, it actually dived like ballistics. This missile has a lethal warhead weighing 950 kilograms. It was he who demolished the house on the Dnieper and the shopping center in Kremenchug, emphasized the representative of the Air Force.
A similar situation developed with regard to supersonic coastal anti-ship cruise missiles. R-800 Onyxwhich the Russian military often launches in the Odessa region.
Hypersonic aeroballistic missile Kh-47 Daggerused from MiG-31K aircraft, the latest threat.
“The complexity of its defeat is conditionally several times higher than the same Kh-22, due to the higher flight speed, even less time for the response of equipment and people,” said Ignat .
In addition, the “narrow-profile” aviation anti-radar missiles also do not shoot. X-31P and similar short-range air-to-ground missiles. But they, according to the spokesman, usually pose a threat only near the contact line.
Recall that earlier Ignat named possible targets of Russian missile attacks and explained the importance of F-16 fighters for Ukraine.
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Source: korrespondent
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