Can you point out a
tactical ballistic missile (TBM) that is better than Iskander-M and its air-launched Kinzhal derivative on a technical level?
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The novel decoy, ejected from the base of the missile, is designed to confuse hostile radar and interceptor missiles.
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Russia came up with a TBM design with flight characteristics and features that were assumed to be sufficient to defeat any air defense system in use.
But US have (quietly and surely)
significantly improved some of its Patriot system(s) to detect, track, and intercept increasingly sophisticated threats. Russian decoys could also be distinguished from real payload in the process. The outcome is for all to see in Kyiv. Russian forces would have reduced Kyiv to rubble otherwise given the scale and volume of its attacks on this city.
Poland will receive even more advanced Patriot systems than variants given to Ukraine to protect Kyiv.
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American Trident II D5 is
the most reliable and one of the most advanced ICBM in the world:
191 successful flight tests
Up to 14 MaRV with sophisticated decoys (MiRV configuration)
Burst-Height compensating fuze to produce shockwaves that can destroy deeply buried targets among others.
Incredible speed.
US is second to none in rocket science, bro. If I have to point out this fact to somebody than it is shocking.
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I do not think that American defenses are infallible. This is not realistic assumption. But I have noticed that US is producing better air defense systems than any competitor in the world. These systems began to show their worth and value in conflicts since 2003 but not many were paying much attention or downplayed American advances in this spectrum of warfare.
Now many are surprised that US have produced and fielded such capable air defense systems.
Perhaps some have better conventional wisdom and judgement than others.
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US did not feel the need to build significant defenses in an Iraqi air
base for Operation Inherent Resolve to counter ISIL movement in the region. It is not possible to conceal something like a Patriot system from prying eyes.
Radar systems is another matter. American surveillance assets provided sufficient early warning to American troops to take cover in Ayn al-Asad airbase when Iranian forces were preparing to launch ballistic missilesat it. There would have been scores of casaulties otherwise. Ayn al-Asad airbase have underground shelters.
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Well, anything is possible in war. THAAD system can be knocked out with excellent attack plan but this remains to be seen and the fact that where a THAAD system is deployed and it is linked to other defenses in the sector and other factors.
Defeat of a system does not suggest that US is done and dusted in war. US have so many options on the table to conduct war on a big scale and destroy the subject in war as it has shown repeatedly in history.
WE can see a supersonic cruise missile that is launched from a land and it is swiftly intercepted by a salvo shot. The first interceptor is good enough to produce the kill and the second interceptors engage debris.