How Effective Are Modern Air Defenses?

[@5astelija75]

The "includes paid promotion" got me worried because I really couldn't afford another missile defense system

[@carpetclimber4027]

Another?

[@TheReactiverse]

Lol 😂

[@BlvxkByrd]

@@carpetclimber4027 He has 2 on his roof, I installed them. With those babies installed, he's safe from intercontinental ballistic missiles

[@gubocci]

Nerokasta

[@snspartan714al2]

Well can I interest you in a cwiss system for close in defense? For those pesky threats that may get past the other missile defense systems

[@uss_04]

03:09 Love how in movies, like the Incredibles, Surface to Air Missiles just close in and try to “Dance” with their targets while they do aileron rolls until the Missile “kisses” their target

[@tyvernoverlord5363]

The lumbering "deathstar" SAM, it such a funny trope. Too many believe it to be reality though...

[@DisregardKD]

Anyone that tries to be first gets a Covert Cabal Nuclear missile straight to their computer.

[@JonatasAdoM]

_covertly_

[@ritchieitchy]

Honestly your videos always surprise me. They are really well researched and very high quality. But what I am really surprised about is the community! Very positive and upbeat, basically everyone is so nice!

[@krokodil191]

Great video as usual....one of few unbiased military channel on youtube. It is funny how many people think that s-300/400 are the only type of air defenses system and that they need to protect them self. They are designed to take down distant ballistic missiles, nuclear bombers, in short, very valuable enemy attacking force, but for the closer range and protecting s300/400 there are so many more...buk, tor, pantsir etc...

[@gerrycrisostomo6571]

SAMs can be very effective too. It depends upon the people who are using it and the kind of training that they had. Remember that during the 1973 Yom Kippur war between Egypt and Israel, the Egyptian forces used early generation Soviet SAMs and effectively neutralized the air assets of Israel, even the highly advanced F4 Phantom of that era and prevented the Israeli Air Force from stopping the Egyptian forces from gaining foot hold in Sinai peninsula in the early days of that war. That is a good proof of effectiveness considering the Israeli pilots are among the best in the world. Only in the later part of that war when Israeli tanks and commando forces were able to destroy the Egyptian SAMs that they were able to use their air assets against Egyptian ground forces and eventually won the war. Secondly, it's also the old generation SAM that shot down the F-117.

[@nathanboyea9964]

Very good video, and accurate breakdown. There’s so many variables and situations for every weapon, it’s difficult/impossible to truly judge and declare a winner.

[@iwantyourcookiesnow]

Wow thanks, now I feel safer when I fly my F-35 over hostile areas.

[@theweeklyinterceptor1618]

Effective enough to deter adversaries from flying towards any SAM site from any country.

[@theotherlemon966]

Iron Dome defense system which shoots down 95% of the missiles shot in it's range: am I a joke to you?

[@ItsTheFry]

Covert Cabal-- How Effective Are Modern Air Defenses? Iron Dome-- Hold my beer.

[@ItsTheFry]

@istiak monsur its not meant to. only counter rockets, artillery, and motors. (C-RAM). Iron Dome is 90 percent successful which makes it effective and is a modern air defense system.

[@ItsTheFry]

@@men8212 ... the title of the video refers to "Effective" "Modern Air Defenses" which includes SAM systems and any other weapon meant to Defend against a hostile air attack/action(guided or unguided). Iron Dome is a SAM system with a C-RAM type use case proven to be effective and yes expensive. This video raised the issue of real combat use to which Iron Dome has seen successful in real combat use since 2012.

[@ItsTheFry]

​@@men8212 Near Defense or Long Range Defense. Still "Modern Air Defense" and therefore comparable.

[@ItsTheFry]

​@@men8212 you missed my point. the joking is comparing for comparison sake. it is kind of humor that you are not understanding it seems. does that make sense to you?

[@channelasianewterminatexii7594]

Russia: "hey syria don't use S-300 to early" Syria: "okey but S-200 Go Brrrrrr shoot down israeli missile attack.

[@masonhidari]

Is that why Israel bombs targets in syria when ever they want to?

[@yoadhordan2809]

@@masonhidari I mean syria does try to counter the Israeli missiles. It sometimes works, usually it doesn't of course

[@NickKrige]

i'm not sure how I feel about a weapon system not being used because "it would hurt sales".

[@bormisha]

It all makes sense because the main goal is to make money. Air defense is just a side by-product of making money. The same is true for all other products on the market.

[@pw_jc]

Maybe more ground based jamming in future?

[@michaelhowell2326]

When I was stationed at Ft. Bliss in Texas, it was the home of ADA and those folks thought they were the baddest-ass troops in the military. Pretty comical really.

[@smokeypuppy417]

I meet a ada ssg at bliss, and he said they never went to the field, worked half days but the patriot batteries deploy quite often though.

[@alancross5838]

@@smokeypuppy417 Nice

[@christianmendez26]

Heading there in feb 🤦

[@smokeypuppy417]

@@christianmendez26 fort bliss is where all dreams go to die especially if you are on east bliss.

[@michaelhowell2326]

@CAG Hotshot 19k, 5th Brigade 1st CAB, Future Combat Systems. Barracks number 2905.

[@ZarviroffSerge]

While DCS is an amazing game, it's still a game and it's made for military aircraft fans to feel good about themselves in the sky. IRL RWR isn't as effective, and not every radar ground AA system will provide you with launch notification in timely fashion and when it does there will be little time for defensive maneuvers.

[@fraxinus7122]

The missile knows where it is at all times. It knows this because it knows where it isn't.

[@miszkam]

according to some latest data f-35 is visible within 7 miles. which it can cross in 30 seconds at max speed.

[@skyserf]

1:09 I placed them on opposite ends of my backyard about 30 feet apart and I was still able to annoy my neighbors.

[@uss_04]

06:00 odds are the first time these AA will be tested in combat would be a drone/AI piloted aircraft

[@fakecubed]

They'll be tested in combat against hundreds of cheap decoys launched ahead of a wave of missiles and drones sent to destroy every radar system that exists.

[@raptor6038]

I think an American and a Russian both can watch this video and agreed on this video. And that is the beauty of this channel. Still waiting a video on India vs China 🤔

[@teddy.d174]

Another excellent video from one of the best channels, Covert Cabal...nothing but facts...👍🏻👍🏻

[@perastotigautera1426]

s 300 just tested in nagorno karabach...reportedly,the armenian aa just shot down several azerbaijiani Tochka U balistic missiles!!!

[@drbendover7467]

To shoot a missile at a target first you have to detect it but then you have to track it while the missiles in flight or against an F117 wildly fire off dozens of exploding missies along the stealth jets known to replenish flight path in hope of one-day hitting one:)

[@Andrew-cw6od]

How effective are modern air defence systems Iron dome: yes

[@GreenspudTrades]

Wearing Covid masks.... that's some up to date stock footage!

[@777Outrigger]

Patriot is often exclusively associated with 1991 Gulf War’s ‘short-comings’ while its success in post-Gulf War conflicts go widely unnoticed. In 2003 Operation Iraqi Freedom, Patriot (specifically PAC-2 GEM) had a very high success rate. It intercepted all 9 Iraqi TBMs it engaged, with 9 of 9 intercepts resulting in destruction of the incoming enemy missile. From January 2015 to April 2017, Patriot batteries intercepted over 100 tactical ballistic missiles during combat operations. The fact is, there’s no other SAM system in the world that have seen as much combat as Patriot. (in terms of tactical Ballistic missile Defence) ~Adhirup Sengupta at Quora www.quora.com/The-Patriot-anti-missile-system-was-effectively-useless-in-the-Gulf-War-Why-would-we-expect-it-to-fare-any-better-in-Korea

[@وليدالعسيري-ي7ب]

Allow an information to be corrected. Al Houthi fired more than 320 ballistic missiles, which were confronted with the exception of one missile by the Patriot system that landed on a civilian airport. I apologize if my words are not clear because he used a translation program

[@pacus123]

Nonsense

[@وليدالعسيري-ي7ب]

pacus123 You can review the speech of the coalition spokesman in the war in Yemen, and you will see the numbers in this regard

[@borissarmatov4391]

I have no doubt S-300/400 would be very effective if used domestically as a part of vast integral multilayer AA-system. When used as a standalone asset it would lose much of its combat resiliency though still would be a force to reckon with.

[@pacus123]

Correct. They're part of an integrated system.

[@subhampradhan4442]

"System could be effective in defending area with fear alone regardless of its actual capability", 😂😂 nice one

[@gravel_slope]

you need to have in mind that it is not only the anti air systems that is getting developet

[@michealhunt1580]

The sponsorship and fake story at the beginning made for a very convincing commercial. Very nice.

[@DemonDragonGD]

Question about jamming(For people who understand it) For aircraft jamming a signal couldn’t they use an antiphase trick to cancel out the incoming signal so it wouldn’t return hence nothing shows up on radar? I know in music the sound would just cease and was wondering if it applied to radio waves as well?

[@cmgdabfg6275]

definitely gonna cop myself a Kove

[@Spider-Too-Too]

08:20 the CIWS defend against SEAD missile was so cool

[@gameingking8971]

Owen Bunny what program is that?

[@Researchmisinfomation]

Can you do a video about iron dome and iron beam mislezen defense systems highly effective against small rockets

[@dalmar23]

Problem not mentioned here. Modern anty air systems are ALL 360 degree aware. This is why SA Patriot failed so many times and why latest upgrades concentrate on filling that problem somewhat untill new rotating radar will be developed

[@neatcompletehandymanservic3831]

Love your content. Yes well done as always. I definitely support as much as I can.

[@pacus123]

I agree with most of what you're saying. However with respect to Israel you need to do a deep dive to remove the propaganda from what really is happening. After the introduction of the S300 system Israel has stopped flying into Syrian air space. In fact they stopped doing this after two of their F16s were shot down by the Soviet era S200. Instead Israel flies close to Syrian territory, launches stand off missiles and returns to base. Most of these missiles are intercepted by the shorter range SAM systems e.g. Pantsirs, but some do make it through and hit their targets. Like you said, you can always overwhelm air defenses by shear force of numbers. As to why the S300s have not been fired, this is pretty obvious. They're designed to take out high value targets e.g. aircraft, and like I've just explained, these aircraft no longer violate Syrian territory so there is no point shooting off these missiles. Keep your powder dry.

[@younissumaling8744]

Thats why air defences come with short long and medium range a complete set

[@mikeschlau4501]

long range?

[@kevinvanderpoole293]

Scary but true... as the saying says... the best defense is a good offence... and as proven in ww2 with the us and japan... the carrier fleet that was first to find and attack the other almost always won... or at least fared better than his opponent... and look at the cost when you let the other guy hit first... see mike tyson in the early 90s... or germany and japan in ww2.

[@pssaggu]

Love the channel and depth of research, would love a video on India/China military options in the current stand-off

[@mab7727]

So, in future wars, basically whoever attacks first swiftly will have the upper Hand ...

[@hvhhvvggg8663]

There is a name for this strategy used by the Germans during ww2 called blitzkrieg

[@JCtheMusicMan_]

I would love to see this revisited now that we’ve been seeing these tested in Ukraine

[@DatAlien]

Probably would have to wait for after the war to be able to get the full picture.

[@bujoun76]

Effectiveness is one thing but the intimidation factor is extremely high. It has forced air forces to use extensive resources to avoid and destroy them. Decoy drones, anti-radiation missiles, jamming, and even stealthy fighters, bombers, and loyal wingman UCAV's.

[@inzhener2007]

At 6:50 the newspaper article says Pantsir-C, not S-300. Please correct.

[@davidmunro6939]

Dig deep. Dig very deep. Only the moles ants and roaches will be happy.

[@eltonron1558]

What happened to the Vulcan? Giant radar guided mini gun.

[@nerd1000ify]

Vulcan CIWS is still mounted on most Western warships. It's a 'last ditch' defense measure intended to intercept missiles that got past your main defenses. Effective range is very short, but reaction times are also very fast- a necessity because by the time the incoming missile is close enough for the CIWS to engage it is mere seconds from impact.

[@SimbaM2kufu]

Like how US failed to defend their military base in Iraq against Iranian missiles

[@RYCOPZ]

Always excellent.

[@tritonmole]

Those KOVE speakers are sold out, must be pretty good!

[@daxkedgx8698]

What i wanted to know if these new gen air defense systems can or could shot down an incoming icbm? or anything flying at supersonic speeds like a cruise missile flying at mach 4 etc.

[@dn7325]

You're talking about old technology. What about lasers. They say lasers can pretty much lock onto anything right away and within minutes bring down a missile. And of course that can be with all the satellites they're putting up in the atmosphere right now. Very old technology maybe this video would have been cool 15 years ago.

[@nhpkm1]

Air defence is super affective due the amount of effort most army leadership try to avoid / circumvent air defences

[@Toppricegr]

Your Chanel just won a solid subscriber... Great video ... A fair and cold presentation ... Keep up the great work !

[@outofoblivionproductions4015]

Didn't the S300 shoot down lots of American missiles in Syria before America hit the Chemical plant building several years ago?

[@born2bbald12]

Please give information on the computer combat game you shared around 8:36!

[@WTP_DAVE]

When the controls look like they are from the cold war.. becuase they are...

[@XxDAOGJAYYxX]

Pls make vids more often

[@frankstippel5988]

The Charlie Brown of Air Defense...

[@RamblingRecruiter]

Curious that you didn't discuss Israel's Iron Dome system at all, it seems to have considerable combat success.

[@patrickbateman7453]

I wish they would’ve included the “Iron Dome System” and some cram CWis footage.

[@khaleddekar2188]

iron Dom never tested in real battlefield, when I talked about real war, I mean never engaged with super Sonic ballistic missiles, only short range rocket,

[@khaleddekar2188]

iron Dom never tested in real battlefield, when he talked about real war, he mean never engaged with super Sonic ballistic missiles, iron dome work on short range rockets

[@therant311]

he made a video talking about them

[@farhadrazavi8941]

Syria bought Iranian SAM since Russians didnt want to engage Israeli planes with S-300. The Iranian system had a f-16 and 3 cruise missile kills in the first week

[@ДаудМухамеджанов]

AAS is all about probability. Soviet systems are analog and only late has enough computing power. So, every AAS is a systematic thing: you can't place them randomly and do not move for years. As for the testing: I don't really know how it is done in west, but there is an interest of capitalist to push garbage in arsenal. In USSR they have made a lot of testing and tried different conditions. In a testing almost every aspect is checked. But the problem is an operator: those things are quite complicated and you need to do a lot of job by your own hands. So, that type of instrument is a real thing in a hands of professional that know what he is doing and how do is it work. So, that's why it is a big problem for an army to operate that thing properly and think in a tactical way.

[@ksvaiphei9387]

Ever country air defence work only 50 percent . That's luck.. but never ever ever depends

[@waterboi4846]

iron dome is great

[@spaideman7850]

Does air defense works? Depends whether u ask US or Russia...

[@rivaldophillips3525]

And that is why they have s500

[@knopisnekurs1844]

What about 2018 missile strikes against Syria?

[@WarlordKronos]

What was the video game about @8:30 where you see the red/blue missiles shooting at each other?

[@snafu5563]

Command: Modern Operations

[@negan_lq9499]

THAAD was not facing the correct direction in saudi? They literally have to face it to the south and that’s it

[@jeremiahblake3949]

You forget that Iran is the greater threat, and have fired off missiles at Saudi themselves

[@rbfishcs123]

Video starts at 1:46

[@IblameBlame]

Armenian SAM systems, which are from the 50s to the 90s and are designed to intercept high altitude, high speed jet fighters, jet bombers and medium range ballistic missiles seem to be useless against slow, medium altitude Turkish drones. Even an S-300 system was destroyed, allegedly by one such drone.

[@innocento.1552]

Most modern air defence systems are super effective at shooting down big fat slow civilian aircrafts, killing all on board. Only Israel consistently defends itself with its ADS, and that is against super low class rockets... At least the are not shooting civilian planes.

[@gravewalker34]

Smaller drones r hardest and biggest danger to air defenses.

[@susovandey6810]

What about iron Dome?

[@efs83dws]

I was wondering about so many missiles hit the targets in Saudi Arabia.

[@legendaryingaming8806]

Now it is proofed that S-300 failed in Azerbaijan-Armenia war.

[@kyleflores5955]

can you make video about modern radar

[@bryangrote8781]

We should have roof top ballistic missile defense systems, powered independently of the EMP vulnerable grid, by adjacent roof top solar panels. We’d never have to worry about the threat of nuclear war again lol. But alas, it’s but a dream. The gun control crowd would never allow anyone to have home defense missiles. Not to mention that building codes would have to be amended so roofs could support the weight of a Patriot missile system. Builders would also lobby against such upgrades as only union shop construction workers could be certified to perform this high level work rather than cheap immigrant labor and that would cut into the companies’ profit margins.

[@sailoroftheinternet3290]

"But alas, it’s but a dream. The gun control crowd would never allow anyone to have home defense missiles" please be sarcasm

[@privateassman8839]

I like the fact that you don't make definitive claims before having adequate evidence.

[@Very_horny_rapists_meiteis]

Recently,Israeli jet fighters bombed a Russian airbase in Syria. But why were Russian S-300 & S-400,who were deployed 4kms away from the air base, failed to track Israeli jet fighters at that time,when both the air defense systems are said to be highly advanced? Can anyone give me the true answer?

[@psuedozardozz]

Can you link to that story? It hasn't stopped Russian operations as far as I know.

[@useryggfdcc]

Israel never attacked a Russian airbase. You read the story on cnn?

[@projectill]

We know for sure AA is effective against civilian airliners. Tested in real life conditions :(

[@SerjLevonyuk]

What if I tell you that all weapons are firstly created to protect goverment from they own people, secondarily to impose will upon udeveloped countries and finally to fight against equal foe.

[@dingus6317]

Serj Levonyuk Proofs?

[@carso1500]

@@SerjLevonyuk that you know nothing about the real world, thats what i believe

[@Khyrid]

@@carso1500 There is probably a little bit of truth to what he said tho.

[@cinegraphics]

It's Israel's fault. Their military planes often attack ground targets in other countries, then hide behind civilian airplanes. If a missile is following them at that moment, they sometimes accidentally hit the civilian airplanes. What Israeli airplanes do is basically using civilians and children as live shield. But the news then blame it all on the enemy, never even mentioning this disgusting tactics.

[@maxchumka]

This is why i love this channel: no bias and just cold facts from different angles.

[@fatgirlboy9341]

Kreo it is bias and copy binkov. binkov is unbiased.

[@WimsicleStranger]

@@fatgirlboy9341 This doesn't copy binkov at all...

[@noodles5438]

John Law Binkov mostly talks about possible ideas for a War or Battle, Cable mostly talks about the Future, and Present branches of warfare and geopolitical conflicts. Each stay to their own realm. How is Covert Cable Biased, can you give me an example?

[@maxchumka]

@@fatgirlboy9341 I'd love to see where Covert Cabal went from unbiased review to a clearly taking sides.

[@adm4939]

Thats what Kove wants you to think

[@meme4one]

These systems are more effective when not used, with the enemy not knowing how good or bad they are and just leaving them in areas to deny airspace because the fact that AA systems are there is enough to deter the enemy.

[@Riceball01]

That could easily be why Syria hasn't used their newest AD systems yet, they're saving them for when they really need them. Use them on a small raid they might end up giving the Israelis valuable intelligence on the system's actual capabilities and potentially compromise their air defense at a time when the Israelis might be coming in for more than a simple raid.

[@meme4one]

@@Riceball01 exactly.

[@JonatasAdoM]

Like Star Wars; or nukes.

[@gooble69]

You would think that AA can be easily tested with a handful of cheaper sacrificial drones or even RC aircraft. Fly a few decoy sorties over defended areas and see how effective AA really is.

[@heyhoe168]

@@gooble69 That is why you need light AA to cover up heavier ones. Heavy AA simply should not engage drones/decoys.

[@SimonNZ6969]

Imagine that. "Hey here's a shield to help protect you. One catch. Never actually use it. It might not work."

[@grubbybum3614]

@Melani Natasha even before the deployment, Israel very rarely bombed the northern parts of Syria.

[@Bizzon666]

Yeah, Patriot has very bad operational results indeed.

[@silphonym]

Now imagine the other side. One spear, one throw, will likely break if it hits a shield. This is how deterrence works.

[@JonatasAdoM]

@@silphonym But a nuke is the equivalent of a bullet against the shield.

[@heyhoe168]

@@JonatasAdoM no, the nuke is the equivalent of f**king grenade in the bar fistfight.

[@edricklawrenceong7776]

Anyone's who has played Defcon will know that even with air defenses, once the ICBMs start flying, everyone loses. Nuclear War: the only winning move is not to play.

[@MrSpruce]

Greetings professor Falken.

[@speedoflight3539]

How Effective Are Modern Air Defences? Very Effective Every side has proven they are able to down civilian airliner.

[@thegaminghobo4693]

😳😳😳

[@geothon]

Looks like Armenia just got one of their S300 knocked out by a drone.

[@cinegraphics]

I've found the opposite news. Armenians have shot down the Azerbaijan drone produced in Israel: eurasiantimes.com/watch-now-armenia-shoots-down-israeli-drone-operated-by-azerbaijan-defence-forces/

[@UninstallUpdate]

@@cinegraphics yes that was a separate engagement. The S-300 got it first kills but were suicide drones and had one destroyed a few days later by Azerbaijan drone.

[@NitinJadhav-cc2xh]

How are chinese drones and missiles?

[@Xx_Tim_zZ]

@@NitinJadhav-cc2xh knock offs but will still probably do their purpose Russia started making more stuff that they sell to china unable to be reverse engineered cuz china was copying designs from even Russia Thier ally

[@cinegraphics]

@@UninstallUpdate it actually makes no sense to launch an S-300 rocket at such a drone, because the drone is probably much cheaper than the defense rocket...

[@nesseihtgnay9419]

They work. But it's not always going to hit. Like what people keep saying "the S-400 system is the best ever" 😆 it only depends

[@512TheWolf512]

yeah, it entirely depends on whose interests you mean when saying "it's the best at protecting interests"

[@nesseihtgnay9419]

@@512TheWolf512 here's an idiot. 😆

[@512TheWolf512]

@@nesseihtgnay9419 please, you didn't need to introduce yourself

[@quisqueyanguy120]

@Русские геи Didn't the russian aerospace defense forces tested the S-400 in Syria?

[@overlord4404]

@Русские геи that argument is pretty stupid, combat excercises in most cases simulate combat conditions as closly as possible, if it works there, then there is no reason to doubt its effectiveness in real combst

[@Zayackanibal]

The news article in russian language u showed says about failure of pantsir-s in syria not about S-300.

[@napalmenthusiast4423]

Still tho,Its hard to trust a not battle proven weapon system.

[@shpingalet7895]

6:48 the article is not about "S-300 in Syria". It is actually about Pantsyr in Syria.

[@spekenbonen72]

One thing I miss in this video is the role of anti-radiation systems (which lock on to radar radiation), like the old F-4E, which saw action in Iraq (and was pretty effective). Probably the most important factor why Syrian S-300's didn't engage Israeli AF FWIW I was a FIM-92 Stinger Operator, attached to a H.A.W.K. squadron, which was attached to a Patriot system (we had a 3 tier AA setup) in the 90's. This was in the Dutch Airforce. We just phased out the ancient 40L70 Bofors "Fly-Catcher". I stopped following development of the latest generation of Aircraft and what kind of equipment they carry. I remember CH 47's having a detection system. And the AH-64 used a system called PANDORA. No idea what type the Soviets have/had (they must have, because of what happened in Afghanistan, with the 1st gen Stingers) What I was taught was that not many planes have a system like that, to save weight and prevent aerodynamic issues. Anyway.

[@fumega]

The thing about these systems, and what most people don't understand, is that they are NOT a silver bullet. By themselves, they cannot do much. They are a part of a layered defense approach, where you have multiple layers, both on the ground and in the air, and, if those systems are used correctly, they are very capable. But if they are not, they will be quickly neutralized. For example, if you have one battery of the S-300, and if it's always on the same location, it can, and WILL, be neutralized.

[@geo42121]

People just think that a SAM says max distance 400km and they think that they can kill anything at 400km. They forget the losses of energy on the way to target. SAMs are big and heavy to hit a figter jet. But they can make pilots change their path or even cancel their mission. Shorter range SAMs get the kills

[@Mint-Lynx]

4:18 You can tell that footage is recent.

[@psuedozardozz]

I noted that too, everyone was masked up.

[@fakecubed]

@John Doe Amen.

[@TheBooban]

Prizrak2084 this is kinda like the video, masks work in tests or controlled environment with skilled workers like in surgery. But real life?

[@fakecubed]

Prizrak2084 those mask-wearing countries are now having a big second wave of cases. What will you do to push your pseudoscience then? Personally I’ll trust my medical training I got from the CDC during the 2009 pandemic when medicine wasn’t so politicized and I was on the front lines as an EMT. We were immunized, trained in the proper use of properly-fitted N95 masks, and the CDC told us that nothing would keep us safe from H1N1 or any other respiratory illness except to stay at least six feet away from anyone showing symptoms. We didn’t even go into the room with patients unless absolutely necessary, and if we did we were considered exposed, regardless of other precautions. But I guess you don’t trust Obama’s CDC.

[@fakecubed]

Prizrak2084 LOL, you actually resort to pretending I didn’t contradict you. Such defense mechanisms.

[@amazing_tea98]

0:15 thousands of rounds whitout hitting the target Me in war thunder: killed by AAA

[@mohammedfahd8908]

You never know what happens when a war breaks out. One can only dream their systems works as well as they are designed. This goes to both US and Russia.

[@BetterOnichThanSorry]

The S-300 was used last year in the Nagorno-Karabakh war, actually. It successfully took out some drones, but in turn was taken out by loitering munitions.

[@maidpretty]

In a real conflict it's rare everything will go as planned. That "stealth" F-117 was shot down by an old S-125 system that was designed in 1950s.

[@Bajker4ever]

Sorry, we didn't know it was invisible xD greetings from Serbia :)

[@KevinWilliams19723]

Because they visually observed that plane's flight path over time and knew it would fly overhead, what speed it would be at etc,...They didn't lock on to it, they just knew roughly where to shoot.

[@washablejunk281]

The F-117 was designed in the 80s. Only 1 shot down out of 1300+ missions is really good.

[@imrekalman9044]

@@KevinWilliams19723 If I may correct you on this. Stealth technology is designed to be most effective against the most common, cm wavelength (X-K band) radars. The early warning radars used by (among others) the S-125 used metre wavelength radar (UHF). With those a stealth plane is "visible", but it cannot provide accurate information, what the target is or if it is one target or several in close formation, only that "something is there". That is enough to engage the target once it gets within missile range, with a low chance-to-hit of course. Cm wavelength targeting radars can still see the stealth target, but only from a relatively short distance, say 20 kilometres instead of 80. At the time of the incident I served in an air defence regiment next door (11th Duna Combined Home Air Defence Regiment, Hungary) that operated both S-125 and S-75 systems. Next couple of days we discussed it at length. It's been a while though.

[@effexon]

@@imrekalman9044 good viewpoint, as mentioned in end of video, that there are many factors to consider in defense system. it is more complicated than just press button and system is running.