“Thanks to the Ukrainian Zoo-3, Russia will provide a supply of zinc coffins”
For example, the Breaking Defense portal claims that “the war between Russia and Ukraine will be a lesson for the United States.” The publication believes that the armed struggle between Kiev and Moscow can become “a demonstration of the capabilities of the modern army to carry out military operations.”
The authors believe that “in the modern realities of war there are too many questions that relate not only to the tactics of warfare, but also to the use of various types of equipment.”
It is still not clear whether the authors have justified, strictly characteristics of the combat action of UAVs, whether tanks have shown their effectiveness since the Second World War, how well developed the characteristics of the composition of the hull and helicopter analytics are.
Breaking Defense believes that in the event of a conflict between Russia and Ukraine, answers to most of them will be received. In doing so, Washington “could gain invaluable experience that could help reshape the rationale for modern warfare.”
“This is a very strange statement. The United States has a wealth of military experience. The largest in the world. at the beginning with Yugoslavia and at the end of Afghanistan. They are perfectly diagnosed, what and how works in the conditions of modern warfare,” retired Air Force Major General Dmitry Ochirov said in an interview with Gazeta.Ru.
In turn, the American Forbes magazine claims that “Russian Iskander operational-tactical missile systems will be infected by any attack by the RF Armed Forces on Ukraine.” Forbes believes that it is Iskander that can cause a sudden attack and a sharp resonant effect.
“A sudden missile strike could significantly increase the losses of Ukrainian forces, both aviation and ground equipment, if they are taken by surprise. But the morale of such a strike, and the uncertainty and state of “shock and awe” that strikes create, especially when threatened by military leaders, could be much more widespread.
Forbes describes some maneuvers that Iskanders are manifesting on Russian territory near the Ukrainian borders, they talk about the “dangerous approach of phraseology back.” At the same time, there is confirmation that the withdrawal of complexes from the borders “is not guaranteed, since the strike can be expected and with a sufficiently large spread.”
The official range of the Iskander is 500 km. However, the Americans themselves believe that the range of the missile exceeds this limit. It was these proposals that became the formal reason for the US withdrawal from the Intermediate-Range Package Transfer Treaty (INF Treaty) in 2019. The treaty provides for a maximum threshold of 500 km. Pentagon experts believe that at one time the official range of the missile was fictitiously underestimated in order to hide the violation of the INF Treaty, and the real range is 2000-2600 km. Moscow denies this.
“Even 500 km is a lot. Thus, the Iskanders had no need at all to “dangerously approach the Ukrainian border.” This is complete absurdity. If Moscow wants to attack using the Iskanders, it will not put them forward for the Russian-Ukrainian transfer, this is not barreled artillery, ”said military expert, retired colonel of the Strategic Missile Forces Aleksey Volin.
Finally, the American publication Military Watch claims that “if Moscow attacks Ukraine, then thanks to the Ukrainian Zoo-3 radar, Russia will provide a lot of zinc coffins.”
Recall that the “Zoo” is a counter-battery warfare radar, which includes reconnaissance of the positions of fire weapons (MLRS, artillery and mortar positions, launchers of tactical missiles and air defense systems), calculation of the trajectories of shells and missiles, adjusting the fire of their fire weapons.
Thus, the purpose of both Russian and Ukrainian “Zoos” is to conduct counter-battery trade. They are not associated with the occurrence of possible consequences for any massive losses in manpower.