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Is the Crimean air defense umbrella capable of leveling the potential of B-1B missile carriers? Operation "with an eye" on the Black Sea Fleet

Is Crimean capable «umbrella» Air defense level potential B-1B? Operation «with a view» of the Black Sea Fleet

Despite the fact, that a pair of strategic bomber bomber B-1B "Lancer", carried out 29 May 2020 years flight along the western and south-western air borders of Russia (including western near approaches to the Republic of Crimea) and development application (“Digital launches” of virtual models) stealth tactical long-range cruise missiles AGM-158B JASSM-ER and their anti-ship version AGM-158C LRASM, was escorted by Russian Su-27P fighter-interceptors and Su-30SM multi-functional fighters just a few minutes after entering the neutral airspace over the Black Sea from the “non-air” airspace, an impressive number of observers-patrons of domestic military-analytical publications questioned the ability of the Russian air defense systems deployed in the vicinity of Sevastopol of the S-300PM2 / S-400 VKS and the S-300B4 and Buk-M2 / 3 anti-aircraft missile batteries of Russia strike B-1B using the above invisible means of air attack.

As the most compelling argument in favor of this opinion, the knowledgeable audience of Runet in general and Military Review in particular cited the ability of strategic missile carriers B-1B "Lancer" to launch long-range, inconspicuous cruise missiles JASSM-ER and their anti-ship analogs LRASM from ultra-low heights, overcoming the Crimean anti-air / anti-missile zones of restriction and prohibition of access and the A2 / AD maneuver by hiding behind the “screen” of the radio horizon from the backlight radars and guiding the 30H6E2 / 92N6E and 9S32M families, included in the radar architecture of the S-300PM2 / S-400 and S-300V4 air defense systems, respectively.

What will the VKS anti-aircraft missile forces and Russian military air defense contrast with the American B-1B missile carriers in the area of ​​the Crimean zone A2 / AD?

And indeed, at first sight, this opinion is fully true, because the range of the radio horizon for low-altitude targets (20—50 m) 30N6E2 / 92N6E light radars located on 39-meter universal towers 40V6MD are only 38-50 km away (excluding deployment on an elevated plain terrain of the southwestern regions of the Republic of Crimea) and 95-107 km (taking into account the placement of antenna posts with the above radars on the gently sloping cuests of the outer western ridge of the Crimean Mountains, high order 350 m). Guidance radars 9C32M will have a slightly lower indicator of the radio horizon (not structurally adapted for placement on 40V6M towers) and continuous wave radar, placed on 15-meter lifting masts of launchers 9A83M, included in the composition of advanced military anti-aircraft missile systems S-300V4.

meanwhile, Based on the tactical and technical features of the AGM-158B / C missiles, as well as the principles of functioning of guidance systems, used in the latest modifications of the S-400 Triumph long-range anti-aircraft missile systems, as well as the S-300B4 and Buk-M3 military anti-aircraft missile systems, it is easy to conclude that, that the above point of view of the audience is hardly true.

At first, possessing range 1200 and 800-900 km respectively, subtle tactical JASSM-ER missiles and LRASM anti-ship long-range anti-ship missiles with practically identical weight and size parameters can be launched by B-1B strategic bomber-bombers via the surface component of the Black Sea Fleet in the Crimean littoral zone and the Black Sea coastal infrastructure from the airspace of such North Atlantic Alliance member countries, like turkey, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary and Poland. Wherein, reaching the launch lines of the above missiles, carriers (B-1B missile carriers) even the latest modifications of the S-400 Triumph will remain outside the affected area, ammunition which have 48N6DM missile interceptors (interception range 250 km), as well as advanced military air defense systems S-400V4, equipped with 9M82MV ultra-long-range anti-aircraft missiles (range of order 350 km). That is, launches can be carried out not only from the very small, but also from great heights, without entering our air defense zones A2 / AD. This means, that there can be no talk of any “early interception of carriers by ground anti-aircraft defense systems”.

Is Crimean capable «umbrella» Air defense level potential B-1B? Operation «with a view» of the Black Sea Fleet

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Secondly, ammunition upgraded modifications S-400, S-350 "Hero", as well as military anti-aircraft missile systems and systems S-300V4 and Buk-M3 are represented by promising 9M96E / E2 / DM anti-aircraft missiles, 9M82MV and 9M317MA, equipped with active radar homing heads of the Slate family, developed within the walls of the Moscow Research Institute "Agat". Built on the basis of slot-waveguide antenna arrays with full-fledged transmitting and receiving paths, as well as having terminals for an asynchronous two-way data line, these centimeter homing heads do not need continuous illumination from the side of the illumination and guidance radars 92N6E of the S-400 complexes, 50H6A complexes "Vityaz", as well as continuous radiation / illumination radars of the S-300V4 systems and 9C36 illumination radars of the Buk-M3 complexes.

Consequently, the aforementioned anti-aircraft missile systems and their anti-missiles are capable of intercepting the approaching tactical missiles JASSM-ER and anti-ship missiles LRASM outside the radio horizon for target designation from third-party airborne radar reconnaissance equipment (including aircraft AWACS A-50U / A-100, as well as the Bars-R / Irbis-E and H036 Belka airborne radars of the Su-30SM / 1 multi-functional fighters of the transitional and 5th generation, Su-35S and Su-57). At this point, all myths of the audience of Russian military-political portals about the inability of the latest versions of the S-300V / 400 and Buk air defense systems to intercept enemy high-precision weapons outside the radio horizon due to the curvature of the earth’s surface are completely and completely debunked.

Eugene Damantsev

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