I think the Ukranians have about sixty of them. From what I’ve read these systems are about as tough to run as a Nintendo 64 ‘Battletanx’ missiles.
As George Orwell wrote, one of the first casualties of war is truth.
With Obamagumbe, his minions, our alphabet MSMs and the Guardian and other gems like these saying one thing, I’m not jumping on any bandwagon until I see some hard evidence.
Not so. These are not fire-and-forget systems. They have to be guided into the target. You have to be technically proficient to operate them. A guy I know who was a Soviet bloc SAM operator, while a draftee, is as sharp as a tack. I don't think he was assigned to the SAM battery by accident.
Fascinating.
The Russian military said they detected radar activity in the vicinity of several Ukrainian missile batteries in eastern Ukraine on the day in question. They were specific about the locations and the times.
How hard would it be to have monitors from OSCE check those Ukrainian batteries for evidence of a missile being fired?