ATACMS Comes Out on Top Versus Russia’s S-500 Anti-Missile System | The duel in the skies above Crimea pitted 1990s-era US weapons against the Russian air defense platform Kremlin calls “the best in the world.”
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/34782
by brezhnervous
10 comments
Jail the Russian scientist!
Yeah, Russia’s next move would usually be (1) nuclear threats (2) accuse of genocide.
has russia ever made anything that worked?
To be honest they (assuming the S-500 is around Sevastopol) were probably just out of range. The base is over 70km from Sevastopol, and the hundreds of km of range quoted for air defence systems is against air breathing aircraft (and even then usually only if they’re flying cooperatively to their own demise). Against ballistic missiles they’re really more like terminal defence – even Patriot can only defend a few tens of kilometres.
The best in the *Russian* world.
I’m happy to see the Global Hawk doing bomb damage assessment in real time. Let them know if they need a second volley.
For a moment, i thought the S-500 was destroyed by the ATACMS
The Kremlin excuse seems to be that the ATACMS were launched from civilian ships in the Black Sea. That’s a recipe for reopening a lot of issues that were sort of settled year ago.
Russia has no nukes that work. They are all hat, no cattle. I wish the world would steamroll in with a real flex and clean house. World politics is too soft. Dictators only get dealt with by force. Burn them down.
S-500 ?
You mean S-300 Mk3 ?