An expert of The National Interest magazine told what benefits the Americans received from the abduction of the Russian anti-aircraft missile system (SAM) “Pantsir-S1”.
In July 2020, the United States stole the Russian Pantsir-S1 air defense system in Libya. According to the British newspaper The Times, the SAM was taken by the US Air Force from Libya to Ramstein Air base in Germany.
The Americans explained this by the desire to “eliminate the threat” and prevent the complex from falling into the hands of the enemy. However, according to experts, in this case it was easier to destroy the “Shell-C1” than to transport it to another country.
“The fact of the export of the “Shell” by the United States indicates that some useful information can be extracted from this complex, since this is not an imitation model, but a real enemy technique”, – the expert of The National Interest magazine believes.