russians Lost S-350 Vityaz SAM System Due to Mine Explosion
Media has released footage, showing that russian invaders lost 50P6 missile launcher of the S-350 medium-range SAM system in the temporarily occupied part of Luhansk Oblast due to a mine explosion. It is currently unknown under what conditions and when this happened, but it is clear that the surface-to-air missiles on the launchers did not detonate.
The fact that a launcher of air defense system was destroyed on a mine in rear area looks unusual. There are no other references of such cases in open sources. Therefore, it turns out that russian occupiers lost launcher of the surface-to-air missiles system due to mine explosion for the first time.
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It is important to note that this was a very rare russian S-350 Vityaz SAM system.
The S-350 Vityaz is russian medium-range surface-to-air missile system developed by GSKB Almaz-Antey. Its purpose is to replace the S-300PS. It was adopted only in 2020, and russian army had only six launchers of such systems as of 2022.
According to open source data, it has the following characteristics:
-striking range of aerodynamic targets is up to 60 kilometers;
– striking range of ballistic targets is up to 20 kilometers;
-the system is claimed to be able to simultaneously fire up to 8 targets;
-the number of anti-aircraft missiles per launcher is 12.
russians also claim that the S-350 Vityaz system is allegedly capable of operating “in automatic mode” due to its high level of digitalization.
Earlier War Ukraine-Russia News Hub reported that russia had got eighteen new combat jets in 2023, without Mentioning Su-57.
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