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The main advantages of the C-400 had an effect. Attempts on Abqaiq and Huraysu and a number of "Lockheed" surprises

Abundant food for thought and discussion in expert circles was provided by the recent statement by Russian President Vladimir Putin, sounded 16 September 2019 of the year during a press conference on the sidelines of the Astana Troika summit in Ankara. In it, the Russian leader announced the possibility of concluding a multibillion-dollar contract between the Saudi Arabian defense department and Rosoboronexport for the supply of S-400 Triumph anti-aircraft missile systems to the Arabian side to cover the largest strategically important military facilities., oil refineries and oil terminals from massive attacks by tactical cruise missiles and kamikaze drones, belonging to units of the Houthi movement "Ansar Allah".

The main advantages of the C-400 had an effect. Attacks on Abqaiq and Khurais and a number of surprises «Lockheed»

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One side, information about the readiness to conclude a multibillion-dollar deal between Moscow and Riyadh for the supply of several divisions of "four hundred" cannot be elevated to the rank of resonant news, since it appears in Runet with 5 October 2017 of the year (with reference to an informed source in JSC Concern VKO Almaz-Antey), and there are no hints of the finalization of this contract to this day. After all, the Western Asian arms market (except Iran Egypt and Turkey and partly Iraq) still continues to be under the powerful military-industrial lobby of the Pentagon in general and the largest American military-industrial corporations in particular.

On the other hand, this statement was made by Vladimir Putin literally two days after the successful massive missile attack of the Shia-Zaidi missile units from Ansar Allah on the Arabian oil refinery Abqaiq and the Khurais field using tactical long-range cruise missiles "Quds-1" and UAV-kamikaze "Samad -1/3". It is in this episode 36 batteries of the Patriot PAC-2 air defense system and 52 batteries of the most modern advertised Patriot PAC-3MSE air defense systems demonstrated complete incapacity in confrontation with dozens of approaching enemy low-altitude air attack systems. And this despite the fact, that the latter did not have modern radar absorbing coatings, reducing the effective scattering surface from standard 0,3 quarter. m to 0.05—0.1 sq.. m.

That is, in the statement of the Russian leader one can see nothing more, as an interline with an unambiguous hint of Almaz-Antey's readiness to join in the fiercest competitive battle with the military-industrial company Lockheed Martin for dominance in the Middle Asian arms market in the sector of modern air defense and missile defense. Is Almazov's brainchild ready for such battles with the Patriot PAC-3MSE, the export modification of which is unlikely to ever be adapted to the use of the latest super-maneuverable anti-aircraft missiles 9M96E / E2? certainly, Yes.

Despite the fact, that the ammunition of the export "four hundred" can boast of having only standard 48N6DM anti-aircraft guided missiles with semi-active radar homing heads, not allowing to destroy over-the-horizon low-altitude targets (unlike more modern MIM-104F PAC-3MSE anti-missiles with active millimeter-wave missile launchers), 6-channel radars for illumination and guidance 92N6E of S-400 systems are able to work more efficiently on ultra-low-altitude enemy targets, than the AN / MPQ-53 / 65 illumination radars of the US Patriots.

In particular, a more advanced beamforming algorithm of the 92N6E radar allows you to scan the airspace in the elevation sector from 0 to 64 degrees, while the minimum beam elevation of the radar for illumination and guidance of the "Patriot" MPQ-53/65 does not begin with 0, and with 1 degrees. It is this technological gap that limits the minimum height of detectable, targets tracked and “captured” by AN / MPQ-65 radars with a mark of 30-50 meters, while domestic radars of the 30N6E / 92N6E family are capable of working on inconspicuous enemy targets, operating at altitudes of 5-15 m. This "chronic disease" of the MPQ-65 radar stations is the main reason for the fiasco of all the Arabian "Patriots" during the September Houthi missile strike.

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Furthermore, these radar stations do not have the ability to continuously view all-aspect airspace in a 360-degree azimuth zone, what all-altitude detectors 96L6E and low-altitude detectors 48Ya6-K1 "Approach-K1" are quite capable of, attached to the S-400 Triumph anti-aircraft missile systems in accordance with the terms of one or another "optional package" under existing and future contracts. Consequently, The latest Patriot PAC-3MSE anti-aircraft missile systems need permanent target designation from AWACS E-3A / C / G aircraft of the AWACS system, as well as tactical aircraft and ground-based radars, equipped with terminals of the tactical information exchange system "Link-16", while the more “ancient” Patriot PAC-2 complexes are completely unable to destroy low-altitude targets due to the presence of MIM-104C anti-aircraft missiles, equipped with semi-active radar seeker, relying on flawed AN / MPQ-53 / 65 guidance radars. Based on these data, we can safely judge the level of competitiveness of the Patriot in comparison with an ordinary modification of the S-400 Triumph air defense system.

Eugene Damantsev

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