Pantsir-S1. FILE IMAGE: Sputnik. Evgeny Biyatov
Pantsir-S1 short-range air defense systems have undergone upgrade and received new software to intercept precision-guided rockets fired by American-made M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS) more effectively, Pantsir-S1 rocket launcher commander with the call sign Baron from Russia’s Western Military District said on January 25.
The Pantsir-S1 was designed to provide point air defense of military, industrial and administrative installations against aircraft, helicopters, precision munitions, cruise missiles and drones.
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The United States have supplied Kiev forces with at least 20 HIMARS systems since the start of the Russian special military operation in Ukraine. These systems are mainly armed with M30/M31 series GMLRS GPS-guided rockets, which have a range of more than 70 kilometers.
Ukraine also received 15 M270 Multiple Launch Rocket Systems (MLRS), which can fire GMLRS rockets, from the United Kingdom, Norway, Germany, France and Italy.
“We fulfill the objectives of shielding military facilities, and also civilian infrastructure. The vehicle’s specific feature is its 360-degree view capability to engage many types of aerial targets: aircraft, helicopters, MLRS, and also drones,” the commander said in a video released by Russia’s Defense Ministry
“This vehicle can operate during a march and on the move. We shot down various types of targets: both Bayraktar drones and Tochka-U [ballistic missiles]. A HIMARS is an altitude target and has its ballistics. Due to its high speed, it is necessary to react quickly to make a decision. These [Pantsir-S1] vehicles have been upgraded to engage this target,” he explained.
In December, RIA Novosti reported that Russian air defenses have received a new software that allows them to quickly detect, tack and shoot down GMLRS rockets. However, the news agency didn’t specify back then which systems were upgraded.
Ukrainian HIMARS and MLRS rockets are being intercepted by Pantsir-S1 and other Russian air defense systems on a daily basis. However, they continue to pose a real threat to military and civilian targets.
HIMARS just became obsolete. Russia 🇷🇺 #1!
Keep on deserting Russian soldiers. Your military sucks! 😭🤣
What a dumb ignorant pigg.
I see you fully believe western MSM. Well, you’ll be surprised very soon…
Wishful thinking doesn’t change reality. If you support globalist fascist in the US and their brainwashing of their own population with insane ideology or not, doesn’t matter at all either. The fact is that those people are waging global war against everyone including your neighbour.
Russia is not onlu defending itself, it is defending the world against those kind of scumbags, including you and me.
This should be confirmed independently. Just claiming to shoot down ballistic missiles is meaningless.
Russia should bring in NATO observers to verify this, huh?
They have been shooting them down in large numbers to be fair. Even the US has been admitting that where RUSSIA has air defensive installations that HIMARS are not getting through due to the low number of HIMAR missiles.
Thanks, Bernstein. How’s your investigation coming?
An excellent chess move !! Of course, for the peoples with some knowledge, not the useful imbecile fucktards like Jens Homo or Tommy redneck oklahoma Sawyer faggot. Why ? Because Pantsir have a reaction time 5 TIMES better than the S-300 and due to its short-medium range, accuracy is almost double. Not to mention the reload time which is 15 times more than an S-300. Btw, rot in hell, banderovite Fuhrer Cocalenski !
Slava Cocainii !!
Ugledar about to be liberated
Excellent, it’s been a long tough fight!
if the US gives ATACMS to Ukraine, it can be considered a smokescreen for the US to launch a first strike on Russia, because it is basically going to drain the Russian ballistic missile defenses deep inside Russia and also make Russian nuclear forces more tolerant of incoming missile strikes. As such, it is warranted if the Russian nuclear forces don’t change their habits to be more tolerant of missiles incoming, but instead respond by nuking the US if an ATACMS is launched at Russia
@Anna, not really much for your sex business
The number of deleted comments suggests that a US Troll attack has been shot down.
Slava Russiya
The troll party going on here, looks like Elon Musk gave out some more free internet to the mercs in Ukraine so they’d have something to do while holding their heads between their legs in a trench dodging, well not dodging, Russian artillary strikes. Go you… Yanky Trolls are a special class of trans-people, they ‘choose to identify’ as right, even when they’re wrong… Ya’ll have ma pity…
South Front is pro Russia propaganda site and most of comments are coming from North American pro Russia right wing bigots. Russia’s 5th Column in west is ultra right wing.
Excellent, we’ll done
Idiot troll. It’s Slithering Ukronazis and if your to stupid to notice? Russians are liberating the Donbas from Nato and Zelensky’s trash UKRONAZIS 🗑.
Must be brutal knowing Natostan was fighting over weather to send useless Leppard Tanks. Just more bombed out garbage from scenes of these tanks in Syria. The Ukronazis are scared shit less right now from which direction death comes.