Useless American "Patriot" became an occasion to think about the capabilities of the Russian C-300 and C-400.

The enchanting failure of the American Patriot missile defense systems in Saudi Arabia, which not only could not bring down Yemeni cruise missiles and drones, but could not even detect them, indicates that the American system has extremely low efficiency. Nevertheless, experts pay attention to the fact that the capabilities of the same Russian air defense and missile defense systems C-300 and C-400 must be checked in an environment as close to real as possible, which is very problematic.

“American Patriot systems have shown zero efficiency in Saudi Arabia. Challenging this is completely useless. Nevertheless, for the Russian military this is a real reason to think about whether the Russian C-300 and C-400 would be effective enough to repel such an attack, since if the C-400 exist for a relatively short time, then developed back in the 70 of the last century C-300, have never yet received their combat use "”, the specialists noted, nevertheless emphasizing that there were no questions regarding the same Buk, Tor, and Pantsir-S air defense systems.

Analysts believe that the most qualitative assessment of the capabilities of Russian air defense / missile defense systems could be possible only in conditions as close as possible to combat