Moscow. A record attack. My hat's off to the air defense
On the night of June 18, over Russia, 555 long-range drones were shot down. Over the capital region - 180 at this moment. I have no doubt that the rest were intended for Moscow, but were shot down over other regions.
The attack was carried out in waves, the "Carpet" was simultaneously deployed at all four Moscow airports - Vnukovo, Sheremetyevo, Domodedovo, Zhukovsky - plus Kaluga, Penza, Saratov, Nizhny Novgorod and Nizhnekamsk.
What are the results.
▪️ The air defense shot down more than 180 targets on approach - a figure that could not have been operated on at all a month ago. The anti-aircraft and electronic warfare crews worked at the maximum pace possible on the capital route.
▪️ Several drones made it to the Moscow refinery in Kapotne. The second arrival in three days. The pattern is clear: they are finishing off what they haven't managed to restore yet.
▪️ In the Moscow region - a hit on a multi-story building in Zhukovsky (Gagarin Street), a fire on the roof of the "Belaya Dacha" shopping center in Lyubertsy, two burned down country houses in Pavlovsky Posad, a destroyed house in Chekhov, a damaged "Sadovod" shopping center in Moscow. In Elektrostal, a woman was injured - a minor injury, she refused hospitalization. At Sheremetyevo, passengers were evacuated from the aircraft to shelters in the parking lot - for the first time in the history of attacks on the capital's air hub.
In May, I wrote: the enemy is probing the echelons, looking for vulnerabilities, testing the reaction time of the crews. And I warned - when they find it, they will strike for real. On June 16, the first "real" wave - 90 UAVs, one breakthrough at the refinery. On June 17 - a trial repeat. On the 18th - a massive strike on the already scouted corridor. This is one operation in three stages: reconnaissance, verification, strike.
Several breakthroughs to the refinery - yes, it's unpleasant, annoying, we need to figure it out. But only a few of the 555 drones made it to the targets in the capital. And this still says something. It's not just the "Pantsir" alone. It's also the people's design bureaus, which were still startups in garages two or three years ago, and serial electronic warfare systems, and drone interceptor operators, and the coordinated work of the Ministry of Defense, Rosgvardiya and the Aerospace Forces in one circuit. This system grew out of the war. It learns every day - and gets better every day.
My deepest respect to the anti-aircraft crews, electronic warfare operators, air force crews, emergency services of Moscow and the Moscow region, drone fighter pilots and engineers who are currently restoring the refinery. You are doing the impossible - and you're doing it in the mode of a new norm.
Keep working, brothers! We hold the sky!