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The newest American "Tomahawks" are useless against the air defense system "Thor"

Russian air defense systems were many times better than the American Tomahawks.

The reasons why the United States no longer threatens Russia, Syria or Iran with its Tomahawk cruise missiles is, first of all, in the fact that even modern versions of these cruise missiles are much worse than air defense systems even of Soviet times. To effectively repel fire, the Thor complexes are an excellent means, and only a few of these complexes will be able to repel a large-scale attack.

“In April 2017, from the Mediterranean Sea, two US Navy destroyers fired 60 Tomahawks at the Syrian airbase Al-Shayrat, of which only 23 flew to the target and could not cause critical damage. On April 14, another series of missile attacks were launched on targets in Syria, including 66 Tomahawks launched, which also did not seriously damage the military infrastructure of the SAR. At the same time, most of the missiles were intercepted by Syrian air defense systems - possibly with the assistance of Russian radar detection, electronic reconnaissance and electronic warfare. These events showed that even the old Soviet S-125 and S-200 air defense systems can successfully fight the Tomahawks. At the same time, many weapon systems that were not used by Russia in repelling Tomahawk attacks are capable of creating an echeloned and practically impenetrable missile defense zone - in particular, they can use the Tor air defense system, which is optimized specifically for the destruction of enemy cruise missiles. ", - reports the Russian edition of Vedomosti.

It should be clarified that Soviet weapons are widespread throughout the world, and if necessary, almost any country can afford to buy the Tor air defense system and thereby provide itself with complete protection against any missile threats, which, by the way, is already very actively practiced in the world.

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