Ukraine - Russia Conflict
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Combined strike of the Ukrainian army on Sevastopol on September 13. On the night of September 13, the Ukrainian Armed Forces carried out a large-scale missile attack on a ship repair plant in Sevastopol using cruise missiles and naval drones. The thirteenth ship repair plant in the Kilen-balka area was hit. There was also a hit at Sevmorzavod, a shipbuilding enterprise on the ship side of Sevastopol. Explosions were also heard in the Inkerman area, where ships and submarines of the Russian Black Sea Fleet are based. To strike Sevastopol, 10 cruise missiles and three naval drones were used. At the time of the attack, the shipyard was home to a large landing ship and a KILO-class submarine. The Russian Ministry of Defense reported that two ships under repair were damaged. It is also reported that 7 out of 10 Ukrainian cruise missiles were shot down and 3 naval drones were destroyed. As a result of the strike, according to preliminary information, a total of 24 people were injured, 4 were in moderate condition.
The vaunted S-400 achieved an interception ratio of 60%.
Out of 10 Storm Shadows 4 hit.
Out of 10 Storm Shadows 4 hit.
So why hide the fact that they've reduced massively - probably by over 75% from last year? The intention is to mislead.
Russia has no chance against the salvos it'll be getting if they pick a fight with NATO.
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things are going to get bad.
Arming NoKo and Iran is a given. Pointed this out right in the beginning. Cuba could get modern weapons too. Even Venezuela.
Point being all that money still led to funding Russia's war, even if there was intention to reduce spending. Regardless, the EU still buys more than India.
The Russians are doing pretty well considering they can't attack NATO intel assets.
It's a pretty old missile. Replacement is scheduled in the next couple of years.
Regardless, what was the point of the S-400 low altitude radar if we're gonna get this.
It's not difficult to defeat SAMs if you have constant, reliable surveillance over them. The idea behind the S-400's design is you can't surveil it, but that requires attacking NATO intelligence assets. If NATO goes unchecked, then it's easy to get through blindspots in the system.
There is growing acceptance within NATO that Russian air defenses are harder to crack than they expected. Even with 100% transparency, NATO weapons are barely able to penetrate Russian defenses, and that's after very careful planning, a luxury in a near-peer war with Russia. To make matters worse for the Russians, they appear to have decided to take the hits rather than reveal their cards to NATO, no different from how NATO's only making older weapons available to Ukraine.
There is a limit to how much area you can cover and then again you can overwhelm the system. Second thing is that ISR for ukraine is being done by NATO, as such as long those platforms are untouched expect to take some amount of damage,
If you look at this attack and previous attacks , all of them are pin point assaults on assets, they are not just blindly hitting harbor or airbase. You can imagine the amount of real time intelligence ukraine is getting.
russians blindly followed the western technology denial regime and now they are paying the price for it. If they had given tech to other cntries they could have not just imported from them now but would have also kept west on its toes. They dint export all those jets/missiles to iran,libya ,iraq under western pressure , west picked them of one by one and emboldened them to attack russia directly now.
But the target wasn't S-400s, it was a naval base. The target was a dry dock. You could get that off google maps.
It was the S-400s jobs to protect the naval base.
I don't know what NATO ISAR has to do with that.