220 | Robert Farley: Air Wars in Ukraine and Beyond
The Realignment
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Russian Surface Air Missil System - What's the Problem?
A russian surface air missil system can be in russia, a hundred miles inside the border, and it can still kill in an fighter. A s 300 is kind of like that, only less. But you can shoot down stuff that that's really long ways away. And then in the sens, wha's really flooding the ucrane right now is man pads and other small mobile sams. These are great for killing a really flo really low flying, fixed wingd aircraft. They're also really effective against telecopters. It's not obvious at this point that the russians have done very much, even to degrade what the cranians had on day one,
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