“Now Ukraine has the best air defense in the world,” - military expert

On the night of May 30, Russian invaders used 31 Shahed-136 kamikaze drones during another attack on Ukraine. 29 drones were shot down by air defense forces. In fact, this was the third missile-drone attack on Kyiv in just a day, and all of them were repulsed thanks to air defense forces. Now Ukraine has the best air defense in the world. Best in a number of ways. He writes about this in his Telegram channel “Evil Odessa” military expert Alexander Kovalenko.

“Ukrainian specialists have the richest experience in repelling unified, combined and wave-like attacks in real combat conditions. No army in the world has such experienced air defense personnel who not only had experience in repelling missile attacks, but also did it for more than a year with means that technically and technologically lagged behind the modern challenges of war and were significantly inferior to enemy weapons. Literally on the eve of the war, a wave of “betrayal” swept through the information space of Ukraine on the topic that the Ukrainian air defense is not ready and unable to repel the Russian threat, and that we urgently need the Patriot air defense system, the Iron Dome and other high-tech and high-tech miracles of foreign air defense and missile defense .

However, I then wrote in my publication that Ukraine has the most combat-ready air defense in Europe, when compared with each country separately, and not within NATO. At that pre-war moment, there was not a single European country that would be equal to our air defense in terms of potential. But, despite the quantitative potential and separation, our air defense mainly consisted of morally and technically obsolete samples of the USSR era.

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As of today, in Russia, the expert adds, there are colossal losses, both in combat aviation and among pilots, Russian pilots refuse to fly to combat missions in Ukraine, this is done by cadets, and on the territory of Ukraine they mainly carry out air strikes from Russian air space.

“But even this is not the main thing, but the fact that the Ukrainian air defense forces, before receiving the entire range of high-tech weapons, such as the Patriot and SAMP / T air defense systems, did a titanic work to maintain control over our airspace and developed unique countermeasures algorithms. To date, Ukrainian air defense has developed algorithms to counter all types of Russian missiles. In addition, algorithms for the destruction of Shahed-136 have been worked out. The vulnerabilities of each of these missiles have been studied and countermeasure methods, the reaction to each type of launch and the use of various means of destruction, the most effective, have been worked out. But this became possible not only thanks to modern air defense systems. I’ll explain what I mean.

One of the best air defense in the Middle East in Saudi Arabia. The Saudi army is armed with more than 100 Patriot air defense systems. In turn, during the confrontation with the Yemeni Houthis, missiles launched into the territory of Saudi Arabia were not always intercepted. That is, the presence of high-tech air defense in service is not yet a guarantee of complete security, and a lot is decided by both the professionalism of operators and the general approach to building echelons.

Now we can say with confidence that the approximate construction of the echelon in Kyiv and the region. The air defense system built around and in the capital demonstrates the highest efficiency in countering missile and drone threats. Unfortunately, due to lack of funds, it has not yet been possible to create similar echelons in other million-plus cities. But this is for now“.

Earlier, FACTS wrote that all 11 Iskanders flying to Kyiv were shot down by air defense.