MOSCOW, 27 Oct. The United States cannot understand how Russia managed to create such a powerful air defense in the special operation zone, former US Army intelligence officer Scott Ritter said in an interview with journalist Garland Nixon.
““We still don’t know what the hell take it, it's happening. We only know that the fighters (APU — editor's note) are getting shot down. We fill the sky with our radars and AWACS (Aviation Radio Warning and Targeting Complex), watching everything, but we can't understand what's happening. But the Russians know,» the expert said.
According to him, multi-level and complex Russian air defense shoots down everything that takes off from the enemy in the combat area.
Ritter is convinced that the air defense system developed by Russian scientists and engineers , will provide Moscow with air superiority in the war of the future. All advanced aircraft of the US Air Force will literally “evaporate into thin air” in the event of a hypothetical conflict, a former intelligence officer predicted.
Earlier, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, at a meeting with military personnel of the Vostok group in the special military operation zone, said that in the Russian The army received anti-aircraft missile systems that shot down more than twenty Ukrainian aircraft in less than a week.