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Ukraine’s NATO-enabled attacks turning Russia into impregnable air defense fortress - expert Speaking at the Eastern Economic Forum on Thursday, Russian president Vladimir Putin said the key to preventing Ukrainian drone and missile attacks lies in strengthening air defenses. Russia is making it happen - military analyst Igor Korotchenko...

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🚨🇨🇳 PENTAGON IN PANIC: CHINA DEPLOYS NEW DEFENSE SYSTEMS MAKING U.S. & TAIWAN'S MISSILES OBSOLETE As Washington sells HIMARS rockets and ATACMS ballistic missiles to Taiwan and stations US personnel permanently in Taipei’s new Joint Firepower Coordination Centre, the Chinese Army in Fujian province is now fully re-equipped with the upgraded HQ-16F long-range air defense system. 🔸 The new HQ-16F delivers a massive 160KM RANGE — more than double the 40-70km of earlier variants and the first true long-range system in the family. 🔸 Its slimmer near-tailless missiles, AESA radar, and advanced inertial + active/semi-active guidance provide superior anti-jamming and anti-saturation performance. 🔸 The upgrade arrives exactly as the U.S. considers deploying ATACMS just 16KM from the Chinese mainland coast. 🔸 It slots perfectly into Beijing’s world-class multi-layered missile shield, anchored by the new mobile HQ-29 ICBM interceptor. Do you think Taiwan and the U.S. can cope with China's defense systems?

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🚨🇷🇺 U.S. NAVAL NIGHTMARE: RUSSIA UPGRADES GIANT COLD WAR BATTLECRUISER Russia has heavily upgraded its giant Cold War-era battlecruisers. The 1980s Kirov-class ship Admiral Nakhimov is now becoming a hypersonic-armed powerhouse that could create big problems for the US and NATO navies. 🔸 Up to 60 Zircon hypersonic missiles — replacing the old 20 Granite supersonic “carrier killer” missiles (3 Zircons fit in each old slot) for much faster and heavier strikes. 🔸 96 Fort-M / S-300 long-range air defense missiles + 40 Osa short-range missiles, new AK-192 guns, land-attack cruise missiles, and upgraded anti-submarine weapons. 🔸 Kashtan close-in weapon system with rapid-fire Gatling guns plus 8 extra missiles to shoot down incoming drones and missiles at the last second, plus better radars and fire control. U.S. destroyers are equipped with SM-6, Tomahawk, and SeaRAM missiles, but this massive, modernized 28,000-ton battleship is armed with Zircon hypersonic missiles, which are extremely difficult to intercept — something Russia is already proving in Ukraine. Do you think the US Navy can counter this upgraded Russian warship?

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🚨🇮🇷 IRAN’S DRONE HUNTERS: A NIGHTMARE FOR U.S. AND ISRAELI UAVs Even under constant U.S. and Israeli airstrikes, Iran still intercepts enemy drones. The reason lies in a set of mobile, radar-silent air defense systems that are far harder to detect and destroy: 🔸 Missile 358 – a loitering anti-drone interceptor operating in autonomous “free hunt” mode. Flying at ~0.6 Mach with up to 100 km range and 8.5 km interception altitude, it can patrol airspace and engage targets like MQ-9 Reaper or Hermes-900 UAVs. Radio correction can improve accuracy but risks exposing the control node to enemy electronic surveillance. 🔸 AD-08 Majid – a mobile short-range air defense system using optical and thermal sensors instead of radar. Its IR-guided missiles reach ~2 Mach, with 8 km range and 6 km altitude, making the system difficult to detect for aircraft relying on radar warning receivers. 🔸 Repurposed R-73 / R-27T missiles – infrared air-to-air missiles adapted for ground launch from mobile platforms equipped with thermal sights. Similar improvised systems have previously downed UAVs and even aircraft — including a Saudi F-15S shot down by the Houthis in 2018. Unlike radar-based systems that can be quickly targeted by anti-radiation missiles, these mobile defenses are harder to detect and eliminate, allowing Iran to keep enemy UAV operations under constant pressure. Do you think radar-silent air defenses could really help Iran counter Western drones and aircraft?

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💥 Operators of the Unmanned Systems Forces struck an Osa surface-to-air missile system on the Donetsk axis Pilots of the 412th Nemesis Brigade delivered a precise strike on an enemy mobile air defense system used to cover russian units and critical assets from aircraft, cruise missiles, and UAV strikes. The Osa SAM system is a short-range mobile air defense complex equipped with six missiles, capable of engaging aerial targets at distances of up to 10 km and altitudes of up to 5 km. It is one of the most widely used air defense systems operated by russian forces. The Unmanned Systems Forces continue to systematically degrade the enemy’s air defense capabilities, opening the airspace for further operations by Ukraine’s Defense Forces. USF: One step ahead!
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💥 Operators of the Unmanned Systems Forces struck an Osa surface-to-air missile system on the Donetsk axis Pilots of the 412th Nemesis Brigade delivered a precise strike on an enemy mobile air defense system used to cover russian units and critical assets from aircraft, cruise missiles, and UAV strikes. The Osa SAM system is a short-range mobile air defense complex equipped with six missiles, capable of engaging aerial targets at distances of up to 10 km and altitudes of up to 5 km. It is one of the most widely used air defense systems operated by russian forces. The Unmanned Systems Forces continue to systematically degrade the enemy’s air defense capabilities, opening the airspace for further operations by Ukraine’s Defense Forces. USF: One step ahead!

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UPDATE: Ukrainian intelligence used naval drone to launch a smaller attack drone, which then took out one of Russia’s S400 defense system. 🇺🇦🇷🇺 The S-400 is one of Russia’s most prized air defense systems, built to shoot down aircraft, drones, and missiles at long range. The cost gap is staggering. A single S-400 launcher and its support systems can cost billions of dollars. The drones used to destroy it likely cost only in thousands. What is genuinely new is the method. Ukraine used a naval drone, built for sea warfare, as a launch platform to carry smaller FPV drones against land targets.
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UPDATE: Ukrainian intelligence used naval drone to launch a smaller attack drone, which then took out one of Russia’s S400 defense system. 🇺🇦🇷🇺 The S-400 is one of Russia’s most prized air defense systems, built to shoot down aircraft, drones, and missiles at long range. The cost gap is staggering. A single S-400 launcher and its support systems can cost billions of dollars. The drones used to destroy it likely cost only in thousands. What is genuinely new is the method. Ukraine used a naval drone, built for sea warfare, as a launch platform to carry smaller FPV drones against land targets.

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For the first time, Ukraine 🇺🇦 is expanding mid-range strikes (with video feed) deep into Russian 🇷🇺 territory Dozens of strikes hit air-defense systems, radars and aircrafts in southern Russia. Strikes in 2026 against air-defense and radars damaged or destroyed more than 250 assets, including modern air-defense systems, jammers, and radars. Most of the fixed radars in Crimea have been hit, together with tens of air-defense systems in southern and eastern occupied Ukraine. With Starlink connexion, Ukrainian FP-2 drones (the main ones being used for these strikes) can reach anywhere in occupied Ukraine, but also in the black sea and in coastal areas of Russia. However, this is the first time we see video feed of strikes against airbases and air-defense systems in Russia, where Starlink cannot be used. There are few possibilities that could allow these strikes, with the use of a MESH system with repeater drones to keep connectivity or maybe something new. With precise strikes now targeting Voronezh, Rostov oblast and Krasnodar Kraï, Russia is now facing new difficulties. The destruction of multiple radars which guard the borders between occupied Ukraine (where Starlink can be used) and southern Russia can open new gaps for long range strikes targeting energy infrastructure and industry in southern Russia. For Ukraine, this may open the way to the targeting of Iskander and S-400 missile launchers close to the border in Bryansk, Kursk and Belgorod oblast which are used to target Kyiv (Kyiv is barely within range).
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For the first time, Ukraine 🇺🇦 is expanding mid-range strikes (with video feed) deep into Russian 🇷🇺 territory Dozens of strikes hit air-defense systems, radars and aircrafts in southern Russia. Strikes in 2026 against air-defense and radars damaged or destroyed more than 250 assets, including modern air-defense systems, jammers, and radars. Most of the fixed radars in Crimea have been hit, together with tens of air-defense systems in southern and eastern occupied Ukraine. With Starlink connexion, Ukrainian FP-2 drones (the main ones being used for these strikes) can reach anywhere in occupied Ukraine, but also in the black sea and in coastal areas of Russia. However, this is the first time we see video feed of strikes against airbases and air-defense systems in Russia, where Starlink cannot be used. There are few possibilities that could allow these strikes, with the use of a MESH system with repeater drones to keep connectivity or maybe something new. With precise strikes now targeting Voronezh, Rostov oblast and Krasnodar Kraï, Russia is now facing new difficulties. The destruction of multiple radars which guard the borders between occupied Ukraine (where Starlink can be used) and southern Russia can open new gaps for long range strikes targeting energy infrastructure and industry in southern Russia. For Ukraine, this may open the way to the targeting of Iskander and S-400 missile launchers close to the border in Bryansk, Kursk and Belgorod oblast which are used to target Kyiv (Kyiv is barely within range).

Clément Molin

49,609 görüntüleme • 11 gün önce

Operators of the Unmanned Systems Forces struck two Tor-M2 SAM systems worth $50 million On one of the active front sectors, operators of the 412th Nemesis Regiment of the USF detected and hit two enemy Tor-M2 surface-to-air missile systems. As a result of the attack, one launcher was destroyed and the other sustained severe damage. The Tor-M2 is a short-range SAM system used by the enemy as part of layered air defense to cover troops and facilities from Ukrainian aircraft, missiles, and UAV strikes, as well as to protect medium- and long-range air defense systems such as the S-300 and S-400. Its interception radius for aerial targets is up to 15 km. The cost of a new launcher is about $25 million. Operators of the 412th Regiment carried out another #AirDefenseCide against the enemy, using an innovative solution, the details of which are not being disclosed. USF: One Step Ahead
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Operators of the Unmanned Systems Forces struck two Tor-M2 SAM systems worth $50 million On one of the active front sectors, operators of the 412th Nemesis Regiment of the USF detected and hit two enemy Tor-M2 surface-to-air missile systems. As a result of the attack, one launcher was destroyed and the other sustained severe damage. The Tor-M2 is a short-range SAM system used by the enemy as part of layered air defense to cover troops and facilities from Ukrainian aircraft, missiles, and UAV strikes, as well as to protect medium- and long-range air defense systems such as the S-300 and S-400. Its interception radius for aerial targets is up to 15 km. The cost of a new launcher is about $25 million. Operators of the 412th Regiment carried out another #AirDefenseCide against the enemy, using an innovative solution, the details of which are not being disclosed. USF: One Step Ahead

🇺🇦 Unmanned Systems Forces

134,359 görüntüleme • 11 ay önce

🚨🇮🇷🇨🇳 IRAN WAR JUST BLEW UP AMERICA’S CHINA WAR PLANS The short war with Iran didn’t just burn through US missiles — it proved America is nowhere near ready for a real fight with China. 🔸 MISSILE STOCKPILES GUTTED: In just the first 40 days, the US fired off huge amounts of its best air defense and attack missiles. 🔸 BASES TURNED INTO EASY TARGETS: US bases in the Middle East got hammered by Iranian drones, missiles, and jets — buildings wrecked, radars destroyed, and troops forced to work from hotels. 🔸 AIR DEFENSES FAILED HARD: Iran knocked out key US radars and ground defenses, showing they can’t protect bases even against a weaker enemy. 🔸 STAND-OFF WEAPONS DIDN’T WORK: US only destroyed about 50% of Iran’s missiles and launchers — they couldn’t stop the attacks completely. China has way more, Western sources reports. 🔸 NO REAL AIR OR SEA CONTROL: US planes still faced risks and Navy ships had to stay far away. Their blockade let many Iranian ships through. 🔸 DRONE PROBLEM EXPOSED: Iran beat the US in drone use (air and sea). America is far behind, while China is the world leader — no “hellscape” for Chinese forces. America’s whole Pacific strategy relies on these same bases, carriers, and long-range strikes… and they just failed against Iran. Do you think the U.S. stands a chance in a great power war against China?
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🚨🇮🇷🇨🇳 IRAN WAR JUST BLEW UP AMERICA’S CHINA WAR PLANS The short war with Iran didn’t just burn through US missiles — it proved America is nowhere near ready for a real fight with China. 🔸 MISSILE STOCKPILES GUTTED: In just the first 40 days, the US fired off huge amounts of its best air defense and attack missiles. 🔸 BASES TURNED INTO EASY TARGETS: US bases in the Middle East got hammered by Iranian drones, missiles, and jets — buildings wrecked, radars destroyed, and troops forced to work from hotels. 🔸 AIR DEFENSES FAILED HARD: Iran knocked out key US radars and ground defenses, showing they can’t protect bases even against a weaker enemy. 🔸 STAND-OFF WEAPONS DIDN’T WORK: US only destroyed about 50% of Iran’s missiles and launchers — they couldn’t stop the attacks completely. China has way more, Western sources reports. 🔸 NO REAL AIR OR SEA CONTROL: US planes still faced risks and Navy ships had to stay far away. Their blockade let many Iranian ships through. 🔸 DRONE PROBLEM EXPOSED: Iran beat the US in drone use (air and sea). America is far behind, while China is the world leader — no “hellscape” for Chinese forces. America’s whole Pacific strategy relies on these same bases, carriers, and long-range strikes… and they just failed against Iran. Do you think the U.S. stands a chance in a great power war against China?

NewRulesGeopolitics

15,344 görüntüleme • 4 ay önce

🇷🇺 Russia is quickly learning how to neutralize Ukrainian drone attacks The way Russia’s air defenses repelled the massed Ukrainian drone strike on July 6 highlights their extremely high efficiency, Lt. Gen. Aytech Bizhev, former Russian Air Force deputy commander of the CIS Joint Air Defense System, tells Sputnik. 🟠 All of Russia’s air defenses – short-, medium- and long-range, from surface-to-air missile batteries to teams equipped with MANPADs – are integrated into one multi-layered network 🟠 The ground-based component is further integrated with the Aerospace Forces, with surface-to-air launchers and fighter aircraft operating in concert 🟠 Commanders of anti-air units are authorized to operate autonomously in case of emergency – a possible loss of contact with the central command won’t stop them from doing their duty 🟠 Russia’s air defense forces have received invaluable experience while repelling Ukrainian attacks – the kind of experience that no other air defense in the world has, and which allows Russian forces to tackle airborne attacks so efficiently
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🇷🇺 Russia is quickly learning how to neutralize Ukrainian drone attacks The way Russia’s air defenses repelled the massed Ukrainian drone strike on July 6 highlights their extremely high efficiency, Lt. Gen. Aytech Bizhev, former Russian Air Force deputy commander of the CIS Joint Air Defense System, tells Sputnik. 🟠 All of Russia’s air defenses – short-, medium- and long-range, from surface-to-air missile batteries to teams equipped with MANPADs – are integrated into one multi-layered network 🟠 The ground-based component is further integrated with the Aerospace Forces, with surface-to-air launchers and fighter aircraft operating in concert 🟠 Commanders of anti-air units are authorized to operate autonomously in case of emergency – a possible loss of contact with the central command won’t stop them from doing their duty 🟠 Russia’s air defense forces have received invaluable experience while repelling Ukrainian attacks – the kind of experience that no other air defense in the world has, and which allows Russian forces to tackle airborne attacks so efficiently

Sputnik

27,674 görüntüleme • 1 ay önce

The Telegram channel “Byt Ili” conducted a detailed analysis of the performance of Russian air defense during yesterday’s Ukrainian drone raid on Moscow. It was the first time that the operation of Russian air defense could be observed almost in real time. Key conclusions from the analysis: “Perhaps the most surprising thing for me in today’s strike on the Moscow oil refinery is the number of missed interceptions by Russian air defense systems against Ukrainian UAVs. In this compilation, I’ve specifically cut together the misses by ‘Pantsirs’. The selection is not complete. For the first time, we were able to observe in real time how Russian air defense operates during large-scale drone raids. And I have no rational explanation for why it performs THIS poorly. Yan Matveev described it most succinctly: ‘Air defense systems were deployed right in the city, missiles are flying chaotically in all directions and missing their targets; the threat from them is no less (and perhaps even greater) than from the drones themselves.’ But this still doesn’t answer the question: why is it like this? After all, these are UAVs flying at low speed — not cruise missiles, and certainly not ballistic ones. This can hardly even be described as a combined strike designed to overwhelm air defenses. The only fast-moving targets here were a few jet-powered UAVs like “Bars,” and there were very few of them. This is nowhere near the level of overload seen in Ukrainian air defenses during Russian combined missile strikes. And yet, even a strike of this scale creates chaos and confusion for Russian air defenses. It also leads to the conclusion that ‘Pantsir’ systems perform rather poorly against UAVs. Now it becomes clear why there is such a shortage of Pantsir missiles — because even slow Ukrainian drones sometimes cannot be shot down with two missiles. This is shown in videos 1 and 2 — two misses by a Pantsir against a single UAV, which ultimately hits its target. In video 3, a Pantsir misses the first UAV, misses the second, and only the third missile manages to shoot down the second UAV.” 1/
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The Telegram channel “Byt Ili” conducted a detailed analysis of the performance of Russian air defense during yesterday’s Ukrainian drone raid on Moscow. It was the first time that the operation of Russian air defense could be observed almost in real time. Key conclusions from the analysis: “Perhaps the most surprising thing for me in today’s strike on the Moscow oil refinery is the number of missed interceptions by Russian air defense systems against Ukrainian UAVs. In this compilation, I’ve specifically cut together the misses by ‘Pantsirs’. The selection is not complete. For the first time, we were able to observe in real time how Russian air defense operates during large-scale drone raids. And I have no rational explanation for why it performs THIS poorly. Yan Matveev described it most succinctly: ‘Air defense systems were deployed right in the city, missiles are flying chaotically in all directions and missing their targets; the threat from them is no less (and perhaps even greater) than from the drones themselves.’ But this still doesn’t answer the question: why is it like this? After all, these are UAVs flying at low speed — not cruise missiles, and certainly not ballistic ones. This can hardly even be described as a combined strike designed to overwhelm air defenses. The only fast-moving targets here were a few jet-powered UAVs like “Bars,” and there were very few of them. This is nowhere near the level of overload seen in Ukrainian air defenses during Russian combined missile strikes. And yet, even a strike of this scale creates chaos and confusion for Russian air defenses. It also leads to the conclusion that ‘Pantsir’ systems perform rather poorly against UAVs. Now it becomes clear why there is such a shortage of Pantsir missiles — because even slow Ukrainian drones sometimes cannot be shot down with two missiles. This is shown in videos 1 and 2 — two misses by a Pantsir against a single UAV, which ultimately hits its target. In video 3, a Pantsir misses the first UAV, misses the second, and only the third missile manages to shoot down the second UAV.” 1/

𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝕯𝔢𝔞𝔡 𝕯𝔦𝔰𝔱𝔯𝔦𝔠𝔱△ 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇺🇲🇬🇷

67,005 görüntüleme • 2 ay önce

🚨⚡️ Russia’s “Prometheus” terrifies the West… the “S-500” enters service to set new rules of deterrence! 🇷🇺🔥 Military analyst Igor Korotchenko: “The entry of the first regiment of the S-500 system into combat service (December 2025) gives Russia an unprecedented strategic advantage in intercepting intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs).” Why is the S-500 globally superior? •A unique capability to destroy intercontinental ballistic missiles in their terminal phase — something other systems are unable to do. •U.S. systems like THAAD and Israel’s Arrow-3 are designed for tactical and medium-range missiles only, not for strategic intercontinental defense. •The interception capabilities seen during the 2024 attacks (Iran and Israel) were against relatively simple missiles; the S-500, however, deals with nuclear “monsters” and highly complex technologies.
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🚨⚡️ Russia’s “Prometheus” terrifies the West… the “S-500” enters service to set new rules of deterrence! 🇷🇺🔥 Military analyst Igor Korotchenko: “The entry of the first regiment of the S-500 system into combat service (December 2025) gives Russia an unprecedented strategic advantage in intercepting intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs).” Why is the S-500 globally superior? •A unique capability to destroy intercontinental ballistic missiles in their terminal phase — something other systems are unable to do. •U.S. systems like THAAD and Israel’s Arrow-3 are designed for tactical and medium-range missiles only, not for strategic intercontinental defense. •The interception capabilities seen during the 2024 attacks (Iran and Israel) were against relatively simple missiles; the S-500, however, deals with nuclear “monsters” and highly complex technologies.

RussiaNews 🇷🇺

20,283 görüntüleme • 6 ay önce

As part of "upgrading readiness for future threats," the Defense Ministry says it successfully completed a series of "complex" tests with the David's Sling medium-range air defense system. David's Sling, produced by defense firm Rafael, is designed to intercept rockets, missiles, cruise missiles, aircraft, and UAVs. The ministry says the series of tests was based on "operational lessons" learned from the war, and included a "range of challenging scenarios in line with existing and evolving threats." "The success of the tests constitutes an additional technological and operational breakthrough in upgrading the system, which demonstrated high performance capabilities during the war with successful interceptions that saved lives and prevented significant damage," it says. David’s Sling, operational since 2017, forms the middle tier of Israel’s multi-layer air defense capabilities, which also include the short-range Iron Beam and Iron Dome, and a top-tier of Arrow systems, the latter of which are intended to engage long-range ballistic missiles.
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As part of "upgrading readiness for future threats," the Defense Ministry says it successfully completed a series of "complex" tests with the David's Sling medium-range air defense system. David's Sling, produced by defense firm Rafael, is designed to intercept rockets, missiles, cruise missiles, aircraft, and UAVs. The ministry says the series of tests was based on "operational lessons" learned from the war, and included a "range of challenging scenarios in line with existing and evolving threats." "The success of the tests constitutes an additional technological and operational breakthrough in upgrading the system, which demonstrated high performance capabilities during the war with successful interceptions that saved lives and prevented significant damage," it says. David’s Sling, operational since 2017, forms the middle tier of Israel’s multi-layer air defense capabilities, which also include the short-range Iron Beam and Iron Dome, and a top-tier of Arrow systems, the latter of which are intended to engage long-range ballistic missiles.

Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian

19,956 görüntüleme • 6 ay önce