The fact of the weakness of Russian daggers has hit hard not only to Russia’s political prestige, but also to its economy, according to Ukrainian experts.
On the night of May 16, Russia launched one of the largest missile strikes on Kyiv since the war began. Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valery Zaluzhny said the invaders used 18 missiles, including six. daggers and they were all allegedly shot down by Ukrainian air forces.
The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation has traditionally denied these data. Moreover, Moscow claims that all targets in Ukraine have been hit, and the most important target is the American anti-aircraft missile system. Patriotic – one of daggers said to be completely destroyed.
This is the struggle between Russia’s hypersonic missile and the American air defense system that the whole world is discussing today. Before this, for years the Kremlin has been creating a myth of instability. daggercalling it “ultra-modern” and “invulnerable to any global air defense system.”
Now Russia refuses to recognize the failure of a missile attack using daggersand in Ukraine they say it is because of the incredible geopolitical blow to the Kremlin.
Confrontation Patriot and Daggers
The first “meeting” of the Russian hypersonic missile and Patriotic took place during the attack on May 4 and ended with the victory of the “American”. An anti-aircraft missile system fired a missile over Kiev. The mayor of the capital, Vitali Klitschko, even showed fragments of it.
More than 10 days later, Russia again launched Daggers in Kyiv. The Ukrainian military immediately announced that all enemy missiles had been shot down over the capital. Here, the Russians reported the alleged complete destruction of the system Patriotic.
The fact of only minor damage to the system was confirmed by American sources for CNN. According to journalists, US inspectors have already checked Patriotic.
“Damage to the air defense system Patriotic after the Russian missile attack was “minimal” or “insignificant,” the TV channel reported.
At the same time, the system itself continued to work, one of the most important elements – the radar – remained unscathed. Note that a full battery Patriotic has six main components: generators, radar, control station, antennas, launch station and interceptor missiles. The parts work together to launch the missile and successfully guide it to the target.
It is not clear which part Patriotic was damaged and whether it was damaged by an actual missile attack or by falling debris.
In this regard, the spokesman of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Yuriy Ignat, said that the Russians had already reported eight times the “destruction” of all Ukrainian aircraft, so the Air Force was earlier refused to comment on the statements of the Russian Ministry of Defense.
“Don’t worry about fate Patriotic… destroy the system somehow dagger impossible Therefore, everything they (the Russians) say remains in their propaganda archive,” Ignat stressed.
He also explained that the Patriot division has a radar and up to eight launchers, located separately from each other to ensure combat operation. Therefore, it is technically very difficult to hit him.
Geopolitical strike
The Kremlin does not and cannot admit failure to use daggersbecause efficiency Patriotic became a major geopolitical blow for Russia, said Daria Zarovna, communications adviser to the head of the President’s Office.
According to him, the Western air defense system multiplied by zero the media myth about the impossibility of shooting dagger. In particular, this legend was fed by the enemy with strikes against Kiev in the first months of a large-scale invasion, when we did not have modern air defense systems, and it was necessary for Russia to increase its influence in autocratic coordinate system. and to face the West.
“But now the weapons of the West have become more effective. The air forces in the air defense systems Patriotic already proven dagger cannot be called a hypersonic missile. This turned out to be another Russian lie and showed the useless backwardness of their military-industrial complex from the West. This is a serious blow that other autocracies see,” explained Zarovna.
So, he stressed, the Russians, after an unsuccessful attempt to hit Patriotic made another, bigger, but also unsuccessful. However, according to Zarovna, they are now forced to launch fakes about the destruction of the air defense system.
He did not exclude that the Russians will try to strike again, because they have been subjected to a geopolitical slap in the face and propaganda will not save them, but another “wunderwaffle” will not hit anyone.
An economic shock
Russian human rights activist Mark Feigin also believes that the vulnerability of missiles dagger hit not only the political prestige of Russia, but most importantly its economy. The human rights activist recalled that although Vladimir Putin once told fables and showed cartoons about hypersonic missiles, calculating that these weapons would no longer need to be used, they would continue to scare them. Thanks to the horror stories, Moscow tried to constantly solve political and geopolitical issues.
“We talked for a long time about the fact that there are no modern tanks or fighter jets in Russia. No one has seen it. And now the situation forced them, they will continue to hide it, but after the delivery of air defense systems to Ukraine, have to decide,” – said the opposition on the air of Channel 24.
Feigin emphasized that even an older system would have shot an “analogue” missile Patriotic, as it was put into combat duty in the 1980s. Therefore, today the occupiers began to talk about the alleged destruction of the installation Patriotic.
“At least, six daggers still crushed. Let me remind you that in early May the first dagger, and Moscow denied it. Apparently, it is now more profitable for them to say that they launched six missiles, and one hit the target. Again, I emphasize that this information has not been verified by anyone,” Feigin said.
He also believes that Russia’s loss of these hypersonic missiles will have military, political and economic consequences.
“I think this is a big blow to the prestige of the military-industrial complex. After all, Russia, apart from waging war, also trades weapons, this is one of the sources of income. Now it is complicated because of the sanctions, etc. But, in principle, the military-industrial complex boasts that this Russian complex is in demand and very effective,” explained Feigin.
And now, he said, it turns out that their advanced development is ineffective. It was known before, but now it is a real confirmation.
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