Footage has been published of a strike by a Russian Iskander-M ballistic missile on a Ukrainian 5N63S command post with a 30N6 illumination and guidance radar of the S-300PS air defense system. The video was filmed from afar in the Pavlograd area of the Dnipropetrovsk region. Despite the low quality of the video, this clip is interesting because it shows a virtual confrontation between Soviet and Russian weapons. The S-300PS air defense system was developed in the USSR in 1982 and can hit targets at flight speeds of up to 1200 m/s. Ukraine previously had about 200 S-300PS/PT launchers in service. Ballistic missiles are a difficult target even for new air defense systems. As expected, the Ukrainian S-300PS air defense system, armed with 5V55R missiles, was unable to shoot down the Iskander-M missile. The speed of the Iskander-M missile at the final stage of flight reaches 2100 meters m/s. As a result of the Iskander-M missile strike, the Ukrainian command post 5N63S of the S-300PS air defense system was destroyed. At the end of the video, an evacuation group arrived at the radar.
The War in the Ukraine
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