A high-tech new Russian air defense system that has sparked fears for NATO warplanes could soon be shipped to China and India under the terms of new export deals being considered by military-industrial bosses in Moscow.
Speaking to business daily RBK on Tuesday, Dmitry Shugaev, the director of the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation, said that deploying the advanced S-500 launcher to the country’s own defense forces would be the first priority. However, “when the system has been delivered to the Russian Army in the required volume, it will also be possible to supply it for export,” he said. “We consider India, as well as China, and all the states with which we have longstanding and predictable partnerships, as potential future owners of the system,” Shugaev went on. The day before, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that the first of the S-500 anti-aircraft launchers would be handed over to combat troops in the next few years, under plans to modernize the country’s military equipment.
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General Tod Wolters, of the US European Command, and NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander Europe, has said the system would “attempt to exploit the F-35’s capabilities,” regardless of which side of the battlefield it was on. “You cannot operate an F-35 in the vicinity of an S-400,” he said, despite reports that the Israeli Air Force has flown the jets close to the missile launchers in Syria with no issues.
USA has been bitching about this for sometime. I don’t know why they dont like people having stuff that can counter their weapons.
Kitu najua inawauma ni ati they spent money on research and development to develop an undetectable plane only for Putinstan to develop a weapon that van destroy the plane.
If they have flown with no issues it’s because Russia is smart enough not to reveal that they can see the F35 in their radar.
If they do, Americans will just learn and improve on the shortcomings. Am sure it’s among reasons Russia is no longer racing to deploy their SU 57. They have realized it’s another scheme to waste money on useless “invisibility” when a quarter of that could go toward radar and missile development that makes them stick out like a sore thumb.
I remember one time USA hongad a Russia Naval commander to reveal their electronic warfare capabilities. And he was subsequently disappeared for that stunt.
