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Why No Russian or Syrian Radars able to detect the in-coming Cruise Missiles ?
@Quwa @Blue Marlin @gambit @vostok ?
More likely they can detect the launch and detect the flight path but the time is too short to do anything about it.
Just because I see something does not mean I can shoot them down before the missile has impacted on its target.
Intercepting a Missile is like intercepting an aircraft, while the missile is already in motion, for you have to intercept it, you need to go from Zero (At ground state) to the state of the incoming missile, that takes time, and when you have to intercept a missile travelling at 550 mph, at a distant of only 100-150 mile, a brief calculation will see you have about 10-15 minutes from launch to target to make the intercept.
Coupling with you don't really know where the missile is coming from until it launches, the reaction time plus interception time would make it almost impossible to intercept a missile.
The actual answer is the Russians did not activate the S-300/400 batteries in order to prevent escalation. NATO and the Russians had entered into an agreement that the SAMs will be used against NATO only if Russian targets were attacked. Syrian targets were fair game.
Plus the Americans had already informed the Russians that the targets were Syrian.
It was all politics, not technical.
idiots think the s400 is the god of all missiles systems, thing is it depends on the job. objects 10000ft+ would be seen on the s400's radar and a salvo of missiles will be launched to intercept the hostile missile/object. missile systems such as morpheus/morfey, tor and panstir-s1. these are short range missiles which are designed to engage low altitude aircraft and missiles. they have a short range about 25km max which is because that how far the horizon goes(depending on the height
cruise missiles fly at about 1000ft and as low as 30ft when near it target so the s400 engaging it is out of the question.
the s400 is always accompanied by short range missiles as self defence thats it. now was the s400 or the any standalone short range missile at the base that was attacked? most likely no. hence the attack
The S-400 has two missiles which are dedicated to bring down low flying aircraft and terrain hugging cruise missiles.
The smaller batteries are present as a counter to saturation attacks.
so there is some thing fishy here, if S-400, S-300 was unable to detect or counter in a short period of time, then Pakistani Cruise missile will be able to strike deep inside India with out giving them enough time to counter them.
i am new here need experts advice on this.
That argument isn't correct. The Russians did not activate their defences.
Plus, India has a lot more surveillance capabilities and aircraft than the Russians have in Syria.
So if I input 100 meters for cruise missile altitude and 10 meters for radar elevation, the best radar distance is 54 km. Not enough detection distance to do any good.
You mean to say CMD on ships are useless?