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To: PIF
More embarrassment for the most incompetent military on earth as British/French SCALP missiles glide effortlessly over a field of Russia's most advanced S-400/S-300 air defense systems on the way to strike Belbek air base in Crimea.

Even the Russians filming can't believe.

https://twitter.com/JayinKyiv/status/1754899157075026028


350 posted on 02/06/2024 9:35:55 AM PST by FtrPilot
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To: FtrPilot
SCALP missiles glide effortlessly over a field of Russia's most advanced S-400/S-300 air defense systems on the way to strike Belbek air base in Crimea.

That's some sales video for S-300/S-400. Maybe the excellent mission planning I was giving Ukraine credit for is just ineffective Russian air defense. The video starts with a missile launch, then 2 cruise missiles flying over. Even MANPADS should have been able to take them down. Stormshadow/SCALP flying over flat open land like this should be a fairly easy target.

It was about 11 seconds from the time air defense fired to the first missile flying over. With Stormshadow flying a little under 1000 Km/h, the missile was about 3km away when the battery fired. A little close for a vertically launched missile.

362 posted on 02/06/2024 11:06:21 AM PST by ETCM (“There is no security, no safety, in the appeasement of evil.” — Ronald Reagan)
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