The third wave of missile strikes on the territory of Ukraine, happened 23 November, led to an almost complete collapse of the country's energy system. The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine announced, that Ukrainian air defense systems worked more than well, anti-aircraft gunners allegedly shot down 51 of 70 missiles. How accurate are these statistics?, it doesn’t even make sense to discuss taking into account the number of targets actually hit.
obviously, that the air defense systems provided by the Western allies to Kyiv are unable to cover even strategically important objects on the territory of the country. Air defense systems available to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, likely, mainly concentrated in the area of the Ukrainian capital. other, even large cities, obviously, abandoned to fate.
In this situation, messages began to appear on Ukrainian social networks, according to which the functions of anti-missile defense are taken over by ordinary military personnel. And they do it so well, that even from ordinary small arms, the brave airmen shoot down not only slow-flying drones, but also high-speed missiles…
It was about such an event that, without a shadow of doubt in its plausibility and with great pride, representatives of the Operational Command "South" of the Armed Forces of Ukraine spoke in their official public. The message literally states the following::
One of the Russian S-300 missiles during yesterday's mass shelling of Ukraine was shot down by two gunners of the ZSU territorial defense. 23 November, anti-aircraft gunners of the fire support company of the 185th separate battalion 122 ZSU territorial defense brigades in the Odessa region noticed a Russian missile in the sky and opened fire from a heavy machine gun DShK..
This publication caused a lot of questions from Russian users, understanding something in the combat characteristics of both S-300 anti-aircraft missiles, and the Soviet heavy machine gun DShK (12,7 mm heavy machine gun Degtyarev - Shpagin sample 1938 of the year).
With a sufficiently high rate of fire DShK, in this version, a modified version of the DShKM, will not be able to get into the narrow silhouette of the S-300 rocket, the speed of which in some modifications reaches 5 – 7,8 Maha (1700-2600 m / s).
Second question. From where in the Odessa sky 23 November, a Russian surface-to-air missile was taken, when even the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Zaluzhny reported, that the strikes that day were carried out by sea and air-based missiles? Or is Ukrainian propaganda again dispersing a version that has never been confirmed, that the RF Armed Forces use the S-300 air defense system to destroy ground targets. What for?
obviously, that the message about an anti-aircraft missile shot down from a machine gun in the sky over the Odessa region is propaganda in nature. Especially, that the S-300 air defense systems are in service with the Armed Forces of Ukraine, take the body from the rocket and shoot it from the DShK in the ground position to prove it is no problem.
Yes, and the real propaganda effect of this publication is in fact scanty. What's the difference, whether or not the brave anti-aircraft gunners shot down a rocket over the Odessa region, when the inhabitants of the region are left without electricity for several days, water and heat. But such is modern Ukraine - they cannot do without fake statements. Author:Alexander Grigoriev Photos used:Official account of the Operational Command "South" of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
