Air Force speaker Yuriy Ignat said that Ukraine could not build a wall of air defence systems. He also admitted that Western samples of air defence systems are inferior to their Soviet analogues.
Ukraine cannot build a wall of air defence systems because it does not have enough anti-aircraft missile systems, a representative of the AFU air force command, Yuriy Ignat, has said.
“The territory of Ukraine is a huge state in the centre of Europe, the means of defeat have a certain radius of action… Therefore, we do not have enough means to make an echeloned defence completely with a wall,” Ignat said on the air of a Ukrainian telethon.
According to him, Western air defence systems Iris-T and NASAMS are significantly inferior to their Soviet analogues. So Iris-T and NASAMS are capable of hitting air targets only at a distance of up to 40 kilometres, while the Soviet S-300 complex, according to Ignat, hits targets 70 kilometres away.
Recall, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in the special operation zone in Ukraine began to massively use barrage munitions “Lancet” with a new system of impact. Updated UAVs can be assigned the type of targets they will attack. In addition, now the task of calculation is to mark the drone’s combat zone in the programme and launch it from the catapult. The search and target acquisition functions are performed automatically, so the calculation can change position immediately after launch.