Russian Air Defence Systems. Photos & Videos & Discussion

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S-350 "Vityaz" ("Knight").

 

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Outtake: Gary Powers' Lockheed U-2, Moscow’s Central Armed Forces Museum.

 

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Launch of 9M96 missle, S-400.

 

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S-400 firing at the Ashuluk testing range.

 

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Air defense exercises near Astrakhan.

 

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Air defense exercises near Astrakhan.

Tremendous. The speed of the TOR & BUK system missiles is unreal. And the purposeful zigzagging it does on its way is not the seeker or the missile guidance system having trouble or anything like that, it's actually purposely programmed into each missile flight to zigzag like that prior to reaching a particular distance to target where it then straightens out its trajectory to line up an accurate hit because the zigzagging aid in evading the enemy's locking onto it to jam it. It's specially an anti-jamming tactic programmed into the missile's behavior which is just genius.

 

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It's specially an anti-jamming tactic programmed into the missile's behavior which is just genius.

That is because the Soviet Union had an extensive EW weapons program. Inherited by Russia, who continued on the research.

When you have weapons to defeat your own weapon system, you develop advances that give your ADS and/or missiles an advantage.

If you have no clue what EW weapons are, your domestically made weapons are sitting/flying targets.

 

[Gomig-21]

That is because the Soviet Union had an extensive EW weapons program. Inherited by Russia, who continued on the research.

When you have weapons to defeat your own weapon system, you develop advances that give your ADS and/or missiles an advantage.

If you have no clue what EW weapons are, your domestically made weapons are sitting/flying targets.

And there is quite the improvement we see there on the new BUK-M3 over the M2 with the higher extendable radar and greater range on the missiles themselves. Plus you can see some really impressive VERY low altitude interceptions being performed in that video in Vostok's post. That new illumination & guidance radar has quite the extendable mast.

I think we're basically seeing an entirely complete air defense unit operating short to long systems in:
- Antey-2500 S-300VM
- BUK M3 - Viking
- Buk-M2E
- 9S36M radar
- Tor-M2E
- And the MANPADs are probably Verba? Strela?

 

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S-400 firing at Ashuluk range.

 

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New generation anti-ballistic missile A-235 test firing.

 

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S300/S400 missiles transportation.

 

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https://twitter.com/x/status/1472644002319065094

 

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Air-defence day.

 

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S-500 fire.