2024-01-24 22:08:50
Although the distance from the crash site to the border is more than 60 km, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have GEM-T missiles for American Patriot air defense systems with a range of 120 km, says Viktor Murakhovsky, editor-in-chief of Arsenal of the Fatherland. According to him, for air ambushes, air defense systems operate following a short period of activation of the targeting radars immediately to kill, quickly fold up, and target detection is carried out by other means. Military expert Yuri Lyamin added that the low speed of the Il-76 makes it accessible to older air defense systems. Military Russia editor-in-chief Dmitry Kornev believes that Patriot was unlikely to be used due to its greater vulnerability. In his opinion, it might be a Soviet S-300 if the Ukrainian Armed Forces still have 5V55 missiles with a range of 65 km for it. The German Iris-T, which the Ukrainian Armed Forces have, is more mobile, but its missile range is 40 km.
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