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The S-300 family of air defense systems is quite widely represented and you can get confused in it. In short, these are several types, the S-300P is directly intended for the air defense forces, the S-300V is for the ground forces and the S-300F is for the fleet, there is also a tracked version of the S-300V4 for the ground forces, designed more to deal with aircraft EW. S-300PM2 is the modernization of the S-300 complex and bringing its characteristics to the level of the S-400 air defense system, according to some it even surpasses the S-400. As a result of modernization, the firing range of the Favorit has increased to 200 km, and now the complex is also able to more effectively hit ballistic targets. According to the military, "Favorites" have a high level of automation and speed of work, no more than 30 seconds pass from the detection of an object to its destruction. The S-300PM2 is capable of working on all targets, except for small-sized UAVs; to combat them, the complex is covered by the Pantsir air defense system. The S-300 air defense system consists of a command post with a radar station, launchers and transport-loading vehicles. "Favorite" can work together with the S-400 and the latest S-500 "Prometheus" forming a single system. The deployment time of the complex is 5 minutes.
Continuation of discussion on Russian semiconductor capabilities from The War in the Ukraine
This article might explain the lack of targetting pods and PGM's in the VKS. Russia has almost a complete lack of ability to produce micro electronics. The extent that Russian weapons are reliant on foreign electronic components is much larger than previously thought. Mindful of the fact that the source for this is Ukraine and NATO countries you do need to take some of the things said in the article with a pinch of salt. But the truth may not be that far off.
This article might explain the lack of targetting pods and PGM's in the VKS. Russia has almost a complete lack of ability to produce micro electronics. The extent that Russian weapons are reliant on foreign electronic components is much larger than previously thought. Mindful of the fact that the source for this is Ukraine and NATO countries you do need to take some of the things said in the article with a pinch of salt. But the truth may not be that far off.
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And US missiles are packed with Chinese microchips... We can say that mundealization take it's toll. I'm pretty sure that most world military rely somewhat on exterior sources of materials. It's not necessary mean that they cannot do by themselves but choose to buy cheaper elsewhere. If Russian need them they will find a way to source them, it will just take a bit of time if they didn't done the work before starting a war...
I dont see how the current sanctions would affect their stocks of targeting pods and PGMs made before the war.
They seem to have plenty of high tech stand off weapons in the form of cruise missiles and the like. (aren't they PGM?)
I dont dispute the claim that Russian weapons are dependant on foreign chips but I dont see how this relates to the lack of PGMs and targeting pods
I would suggest the production of longer range weapons was favoured over PGMs in the allocation of budgets. Dumb bombs are doing the job in Syria. I have heard others on the forum state Russia achieves a higher accuracy with dumb bombs than the west does with dumb bombs.
It could be that Russian military planners considered that in any war against Nato, Russia would be against a more dominant air force where the opportunities to use short range smart (<100km) air launched weapons would be limited. Russia appears to have spent it's money more on air defence and long range precision weapons.
I would suggest the fact we haven't seen the Russians use shorter range PGM from their Su3xs with targeting pods is because they don't have many short range PGMs, They definitely have a lot of long range precision munitions
Russia never got around mass-producing targeting pods of any kind, either they didn't perform as expected or were so expensive they couldn't justify them, specially as alternatives like SVP-24 showed up.
The closest thing would be the Su-34's integrated designator, which for whatever reason they haven't managed to produce as a self-contained unit.
The closest thing would be the Su-34's integrated designator, which for whatever reason they haven't managed to produce as a self-contained unit.