# IRIS-T Air Defense: Missile Intercepts and Around 200 Targets Hit

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2120156051681222895
- Source account: [@Maks_NAFO_FELLA](https://x.com/Maks_NAFO_FELLA)
- Source language: Ukrainian
- Target language: English
- Duration: 1:25
- Published: 2026-11-10
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- Original-language version: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/IoMO3qPTiOLf/uk/%D0%B7%D1%80%D0%BA-iris-t-%D0%BF%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%85%D0%BE%D0%BF%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BD%D1%8F-%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%B5%D1%82-%D1%96-%D0%B1%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%B7%D1%8C%D0%BA%D0%BE-200-%D1%83%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%85-%D1%86%D1%96%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%B9.md

## Transcript

[0:11](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/IoMO3qPTiOLf/en/iris-t-air-defense-missile-intercepts-and-around-200-targets-hit?t=11) This is an IRIS-T air defense system. It can engage and works quite effectively against aerial targets such as cruise missiles Kh-101s, Kh-555s, Kalibrs, Iskander-Ks, uh, and jet-powered Shaheds.

[0:31](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/IoMO3qPTiOLf/en/iris-t-air-defense-missile-intercepts-and-around-200-targets-hit?t=31) After its first combat deployment, we saw how effective it was compared with the older equipment we had.

[0:39](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/IoMO3qPTiOLf/en/iris-t-air-defense-missile-intercepts-and-around-200-targets-hit?t=39) Compared with, well, Soviet Buks, it's easier to use, both in operation and in repair.

[0:46](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/IoMO3qPTiOLf/en/iris-t-air-defense-missile-intercepts-and-around-200-targets-hit?t=46) Even during combat operations, if the vehicle occasionally breaks down, here, it's replaced—replaced in modules.

[0:56](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/IoMO3qPTiOLf/en/iris-t-air-defense-missile-intercepts-and-around-200-targets-hit?t=56) Literally, well, half an hour to an hour to replace it and then conti— continue combat operations.

[1:06](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/IoMO3qPTiOLf/en/iris-t-air-defense-missile-intercepts-and-around-200-targets-hit?t=66) The unit has around two hundred targets hit.

[1:09](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/IoMO3qPTiOLf/en/iris-t-air-defense-missile-intercepts-and-around-200-targets-hit?t=69) Our combat operations are practically almost twenty-four seven.

[1:14](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/IoMO3qPTiOLf/en/iris-t-air-defense-missile-intercepts-and-around-200-targets-hit?t=74) The equipment works and doesn't let us down.

[1:18](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/IoMO3qPTiOLf/en/iris-t-air-defense-missile-intercepts-and-around-200-targets-hit?t=78) Of course, we do use it. And we get results too.

[1:23](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/IoMO3qPTiOLf/en/iris-t-air-defense-missile-intercepts-and-around-200-targets-hit?t=83) The results are positive. We’re making our own—