THE RISING THREAT
#Ukraine is facing a serious dilemma, with the Russians being able to launch at least 30 maybe 35 Iskander-M SRBMs Ukraine at any given time, the vulnerability of airspace has become clearer.
#Russia has said to have tripled the production of these ballistic missiles in the last month. #2026 it’s going to be a tough year if Ukrainian forces are not prepped up with more ammunition for patriot missile systems. More
#M901 #M902 #M903 launchers are great, but without the ammunition, CRI, MSE, for PAC-3 systems for dedicated ABM.
I fear that many more Ukrainians will die in
#Kyiv and other central areas. Right now the armed forces of Ukraine have about 10 batteries of patriot missile systems. There’s at least 500 km or 310 miles of area, that is under direct threat of this. That’s coming from Oleksandr Kovalenko on the Euromaidon Press. That’s the range of the Iskandar-M (SS-26 Stone) for those who don’t know.
4 per day, it is sad that they can produce. And that is likely to rise as Russia’s defence economy continues to ramp up development infrastructure for war production, as it has been doing over the last two years of this war or more. There are only two systems capable of shooting down short range ballistic missiles.
1. Patriot PAC-2, PAC-3. USA
2. SAMP-T FRANCE-ITALY
It is said that 8 SAMP/T NG fire units are to be donated by France and Italy to Ukraine. (Wikipedia), but unknown if they are there or when they will arrive.
The French have said to have 7 units in operation.
Since
#Russian forces have modified the flight profile of the Iskandar-M to help evade Patriot missiles, the SAMP-T has even been more successful at interception. The SAMP-T range is about 150km Max against air breathing targets, less but unknown publicly against Ballistic missiles. Aster Missiles travel at about Mach 4.5.
Patriot missile battery range depends on missile but for air breathing targets it’s 160km give or take. For PAC-3 CRI range is 35km against Ballistic missiles.
MSE missile range is 30-60km ~.
GEM-T 100km similar range, but older. Are not as effective against ballistic missiles & are used against aircraft, cruise missiles, not as effective against ballistic missile threats, the dedicated PAC-3 MSE, or CRI and the SAMP-T are the main counters.
Often times US forces with layer GEM-T for air defence & MSE for Ballistic Missile threats. We in the west,
#Unitedstates, &
#NATO allies need to step it up. Or see
#Ukrainians face more horrendous attacks against its infrastructure & civilians targets like we are seeing which will get worse.