Salar , if you say what defeat , i ask you last two week ,in which cave you were living. right now north of Donetsk is open and flanked and Ukrainian moving forward into Donetsk
When I read "defeat after defeat", separate successive conflicts is what I think of - not specific battles withing one and the same war. Hence my question.
If looking at the various conflicts the Russian Federation has been involved in (Chechnya, Georgia, Syria), Moscow scored victories in every case with the exception of the first Chechen war, fought at a time when Russia was at its weakest point in over 70 years.
If however the ongoing conflict in Ukraine is meant, all I will say is that it's far from over. We shall wait and see.
At any rate, none of this invalidates the fact that Russia hasn't been employing ballistic missiles the way Iran would in plausible conflict scenarii. Nor the fact that the defensive war Iran would be conducting against an aggressor like the USA regime, wouldn't be comparable to the offensive Russian ground operation in Ukraine - a country which is not primarily relying on its air force, so any comparison would be moot anyway.
you talk about oka , what fear it bring a 500km missile with 120m cep. we were there and the strategy didn't bring down the moral of city of Dezful.
PeeD does, I quoted them. And I trust their expertise over the opinion of others with more limited insight into the subject matter.
The minimal CEP for the Oka is stated to be in the 30 meters range.
As for what NATO used to fear about it, it's explained in the cited post. And it has nothing to do with terrorizing civilians.
Had Saddam possessed the means and the intelligence to subject Iranian air bases to sustained BM strikes like the Soviets could have done to NATO in the 1980's, the Sacred Defence would have taken a very different and unpleasant turn.
wonder why you guys always stock in cold war era , why you can't understand the warfare has changed , at least look at Russia failure and learn from it
Russia is not fighting an airpower-focused enemy at the moment.
New geopolitical conditions and technological progress has made missiles highly relevant again.
خنده دار هست بعضی ها شدن روس تر اروسها تا یک کلمه بگی روسیه گند زده . به رگ غیرتشان بر میخوره مثل اینکه به پدر و مادرشان ناسزای ناموسی دادی. متوجه نیستن حقیقت لخت و عریان جلوی چشم همه هست دیده میشه دیگه هیچ جایی برای دفاع نمونده
Aramtar va mokhtasartar az anche ke neveshtam aslan emkanpazir nist. Harfe shomaro dar morede "shekast poshte shekast" motevaje nashodam, leza so'al porsidam. In kojash neshun mide ke be "gheyratam barkhord"? Inam shod harf?