Today, demolition was published under the Kharkiv mobile tower with radar 30N6 and launchers with 4 5Ż15S missiles.
The publication of a video documenting the demolition by the Russian SN398 rocket of the BM-300 Tornado S system, the above mentioned elements of the Ukrainian anti-aircraft strategy S-300, combined with the propaganda absurdities of the Russian side, gave me an asumpt to commit this entry despite the vacation break.
"Another Ukrainian S-300 destroyed". Yes, valuable elements of the S-300 strategy module were destroyed, but not the squadron. The value of the mobile tower was to detect low-flying Russian drones and rockets maneuvering from Belgorod towards Kharkiv. Yes, a painful loss, but it should be seen in a broader context.
I already described what the Ukrainian OPL looked like on the eve of Russian aggression, where there were OPL units equipped with S-300 systems, I besides described the S-300 PS module. As you will read, you will actually realize the transmission of information about the demolition of Ukrainian radar on the mobile tower and 1 launcher from the squadron module S-300.
- While applying for Ukrainian propaganda seeders 72 Center for intellectual Operations and Informational peculiar Forces of Ukraine, and these we have full hordes, the Russians did not destruct the mock-up due to the fact that we see precisely the radio-location station as well as the explosions of solid rocket fuel during secondary explosions, so the Ukrainian launcher was not a mock-up and was loaded with rockets.
Unfortunately, there has been a variety of “scientists” who have no expertise, according to their sympathy or antipathy, so as not to be obsessed, comment on the military episodes of this war, importantly overestimating or underestimating something, and not seldom knowingly misinformation.
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The Ukrainian Anti-aircraft Defense, like all the armed forces, was created as a consequence of the inheritance of immense arsenals stationed in the territory of Ukraine units of the russian Army. Karpacki, Kiev and Odessa Military Districts had highly numerous, modernly armed units to operate at the Western and confederate War Action Theatre.
Independent Ukraine was incapable to keep so many units, and from 1991 to 2014, it ran a armed robbery management, eliminating further units, and weaponry was cheaply sold out on planet arms markets or mass scrapping. Similarly, anti-aircraft Defence units and their technologically advanced, costly equipment were treated and inherited.
This policy has only changed the annexation of Crimea by Russia and lasting for 7 years, militaryly supported by Russia's rebellion on Donbas. In Crimea, the Ukrainian army lost many anti-aircraft systems of the S-300 system, but they were a bad method condition, as was the air force there.
Just before the Russian Federation's aggression into Ukraine in February 2022, the Ukrainian anti-aircraft defence troops, which were part of the Air Force, consisted of anti-aircraft rocket units and radiotechnic troops. In particular, the Ukrainian OPL created:
West Command — office of Lviv
– 11 Anti-aircraft Rocket Regiment (2 Squadrons, Buk-M1 systems) garrison Shepeitovka,
223 Anti-aircraft Rocket Regiment (3 Buk-M1 systems divisions) based in Stryj,
540 Anti-aircraft Rocket Regiment (two S-300PS squadrons) stationed Kamienka Bugskaya, (this rocket from this regiment dropped in Wire). and 1st Radiotechnical Brigade
‘Centrum’ Command – seat of Vasilkov
95 Kiev Anti-Aircraft Rocket Brigade (3 Squadrons of S-300 PS) Danilovek,
138 Dniprowa Brigade Anti-aircraft rockets (6 S-300 PT strategy squadrons) garrison Dniepr,
156 Donetsk Rocket Regiment (3 Squadrons Buk-1M) station site Zołotonsza, 1
38th Radiotechnical Brigade, based in Vasilkov, 164th Radiotechnical Brigade, Kharkov City.
South Command – Odessa headquarters
160 Anti-aircraft Rocket Brigade (4 S-300 PS strategy divisions) in the cities of Odessa and Nikolaev,
208 Guards of the Cherson anti-aircraft rocket brigade (1 S-300 PS rocket squadron) the city of Cherson,
201 Anti-Aircraft Rocket Regiment (2 S-300 PT strategy divisions) based in Piervomajsk,
14th Radiotechnical Brigade – Odessa
The Ukrainian OPL strengthened the supply of anti-aircraft systems from Slovakia (S-300), Poland (S-125 SC Neva and S-200 Vega), Germany (IRIS-T and Patriot) , France SAMP-T Mamba, USA (MIM-104 Patriot, NASAMS, MIM-23 Hawk, Czech Republic 2K12M2 Kub-M2, Norway NASAMS etc.
However, the main measures of the Ukrainian OP remain:
S-300 PS strategy – anti-aircraft/anti-missile long-range rocket system, mobile on towed trailers, USSR production, with rocket scope of up to 90 km, produced since 1982. It is the russian equivalent of the American strategy "Patriot".
The S-300PS air defence strategy includes a 5N83S command post and up to 6 (four-hour) 5Ż15S anti-aircraft rocket launchers.
Each 5Ż15S division can carry out all combat actions on its own, in isolation from any external OPL support units.
The command post includes the 5N64S detection radar on the MAZ-7410 chassis and semitrailer 9988 and the 5K56S combat control post on the MAZ-543 chassis. The 5Ż15S complex includes a 5N63S (RPN) backlight and guidance radar and up to 4 rocket launcher batteries.
Some squadrons have a universal mobile tower of 40W6M. It's an integral part of the S-300P complex. Designed to grow the capabilities of S-300 complexes to detect and track targets at low altitudes while deploying anti-aircraft squadrons and radio-technical troops units (RTVs) in wooded or uneven terrain.
Low-altitude detector 76N6 and 30N6 guidance radar on 40W6M towers of 25 m increase mark detection scope to 90 km. The tower in transport position is towed by the MAZ-537G saddle tractor
The full fire set of the S-300PS Favorit anti-aircraft complex module is 48 anti-aircraft rockets (12 vehicles with launchers, 4 cylindrical launchers, grouped into 4 batteries). The second strategy utilized by the Ukrainian obl is Buk systems, but this is simply a different communicative for another article.
Krzysztof Podgórski
