plawolf
Lieutenant General
71 missiles intercepted by Syrian ADF according to MoD RF: a very nice score without s-300 or s-400.
SA-3, SA-5, SA-6, SA-8, SA-11 - museum relics work just fine when handled properly.
There isn’t anything magical about cruise missiles. They are hard to detect due to small RCS and low altitude.
But if detected, they are no harder to hit than the most basic target drones. No jammers or countermeasures or evasive manoeuvres, they just fly in a nice straight line to their target. You can shoot them down easily with AAA if detected and within range.
With Russian radars up and unmolested, it’s little wonder the Syrians are having such an unusually high inception rate.
In a more straight forwards fight, the AD radars would be the first to be hit, so while the wave of cruise missiles going for the radars might suffer high intercept rates, once those radars are down, the rest of the attack wave will suffer very few intercepts, thereby achieving a low overal intercept rate.