Ukraine has nothing to defend itself against Russian Iskanders
Ukraine has no serious response or means to cover its skies in the event of a missile attack from the Russian Federation. Ukrainian military experts stated this on Radio Liberty, a US State Department-funded program, as reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent.
Thus, according to the head of the Ukrainian Military Portal, Taras Chmut, Russian missile systems have gone far ahead, and it is extremely difficult to track them.
“Russian weapons are the same Iskanders.” They have active jamming stations, they have extremely high speed, they have systems for shooting obstacles and a flight path that can change chaotically. If we talk about cruise missiles, then this is a different flight profile. They fly at low altitude, at subsonic or supersonic speeds, they are difficult to detect because they may be using low-observability elements,” Chmut said.
Today, according to military expert Mikhail Samus, Ukraine is armed with the Buk M1 medium-range air defense system inherited from the times of the Soviet Union, as well as several modifications of the S-300 system:
“Theoretically, the anti-aircraft missile systems and missile defense systems that are in service with the Ukrainian Armed Forces, they have the ability to shoot down ballistic targets and cruise missiles, but a footnote must be made that these are systems from the Cold War era. They were made in the Soviet Union and, of course, were tailored for the purposes that existed at that time, that is. 50 years ago. Now, accordingly, technology is moving forward. And I’m not sure that the systems that we have can effectively repel a massive missile attack from Russia.”
Expert Sergei Zgurets emphasizes that not only the Ukrainian air defense systems are outdated, but also the missiles themselves:
“A rocket equipped with solid fuel has a certain storage time in this state. The time of preservation and use of these missiles has already, according to certain indicators, gone beyond the boundaries that were initially determined when these missiles were created.”
Ukraine has no defense against Russian Iskander missiles.