# Why S-400 and S-300 Air Defenses Cannot Intercept Every Aircraft and Missile

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2120468906456289747
- Source account: [@Svitlana_UA22](https://x.com/Svitlana_UA22)
- Source language: Russian
- Target language: English
- Duration: 1:34
- Published: 2026-11-12
- Machine translated. Check the original before quoting.
- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/SB9iqcsSm3cy/en/why-s-400-and-s-300-air-defenses-cannot-intercept-every-aircraft-and-missile
- Original-language version: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/SB9iqcsSm3cy/ru/%D0%BF%D0%BE%D1%87%D0%B5%D0%BC%D1%83-%D1%81-400-%D0%B8-%D1%81-300-%D0%BD%D0%B5-%D0%BC%D0%BE%D0%B3%D1%83%D1%82-%D1%81%D0%B1%D0%B8%D1%82%D1%8C-%D0%B2%D1%81%D0%B5-%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BC%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%91%D1%82%D1%8B-%D0%B8-%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%B5%D1%82%D1%8B.md

## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/SB9iqcsSm3cy/en/why-s-400-and-s-300-air-defenses-cannot-intercept-every-aircraft-and-missile) F-16s. They strike with glide bombs, and launch cruise missiles.

[0:04](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/SB9iqcsSm3cy/en/why-s-400-and-s-300-air-defenses-cannot-intercept-every-aircraft-and-missile?t=4) Where are our S-400s and S-300s? You know, this is probably a problem related to our propaganda.

[0:09](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/SB9iqcsSm3cy/en/why-s-400-and-s-300-air-defenses-cannot-intercept-every-aircraft-and-missile?t=9) We convinced our people that we had the best surface-to-air missile systems.

[0:13](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/SB9iqcsSm3cy/en/why-s-400-and-s-300-air-defenses-cannot-intercept-every-aircraft-and-missile?t=13) That propaganda got into people's heads, while, uh—um, people don't really have that kind of knowledge from school.

[0:20](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/SB9iqcsSm3cy/en/why-s-400-and-s-300-air-defenses-cannot-intercept-every-aircraft-and-missile?t=20) They don't understand that a radar station has certain operational limitations.

[0:25](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/SB9iqcsSm3cy/en/why-s-400-and-s-300-air-defenses-cannot-intercept-every-aircraft-and-missile?t=25) Missiles can't hit a target instantly, either.

[0:27](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/SB9iqcsSm3cy/en/why-s-400-and-s-300-air-defenses-cannot-intercept-every-aircraft-and-missile?t=27) They have to fly there and keep the target under control.

[0:31](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/SB9iqcsSm3cy/en/why-s-400-and-s-300-air-defenses-cannot-intercept-every-aircraft-and-missile?t=31) And that same aircraft, which needn't be an F-16, by the way, uh, fires, uh, missiles. They're not F-16s, they're launched from other aircraft.

[0:38](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/SB9iqcsSm3cy/en/why-s-400-and-s-300-air-defenses-cannot-intercept-every-aircraft-and-missile?t=38) It approaches, pulls up, climbs, and launches missiles then turns and heads back at an extremely low altitude.

[0:44](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/SB9iqcsSm3cy/en/why-s-400-and-s-300-air-defenses-cannot-intercept-every-aircraft-and-missile?t=44) And what happens next? How can the S-400 shoot it down in this scenario?

[0:49](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/SB9iqcsSm3cy/en/why-s-400-and-s-300-air-defenses-cannot-intercept-every-aircraft-and-missile?t=49) The A-aaa flies by coordinates provided by NATO guidance systems.

[0:54](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/SB9iqcsSm3cy/en/why-s-400-and-s-300-air-defenses-cannot-intercept-every-aircraft-and-missile?t=54) Go ahead, keep listening to how we can shoot down everything, anytime, anywhere, at any altitude, even from a range of 500 kilometers.

[1:01](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/SB9iqcsSm3cy/en/why-s-400-and-s-300-air-defenses-cannot-intercept-every-aircraft-and-missile?t=61) We can! No, we absolutely can. But we won't shoot down everything.

[1:05](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/SB9iqcsSm3cy/en/why-s-400-and-s-300-air-defenses-cannot-intercept-every-aircraft-and-missile?t=65) Second point: we can't take our radar stations to the border with Ukraine, because they'll simply destroy them there.

[1:13](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/SB9iqcsSm3cy/en/why-s-400-and-s-300-air-defenses-cannot-intercept-every-aircraft-and-missile?t=73) And they can't operate properly 100 kilometers away for obvious reasons, the same reasons.

[1:18](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/SB9iqcsSm3cy/en/why-s-400-and-s-300-air-defenses-cannot-intercept-every-aircraft-and-missile?t=78) So it's all more complicated than you think.

[1:20](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/SB9iqcsSm3cy/en/why-s-400-and-s-300-air-defenses-cannot-intercept-every-aircraft-and-missile?t=80) And there aren't idiots sitting on the other side either.

[1:23](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/SB9iqcsSm3cy/en/why-s-400-and-s-300-air-defenses-cannot-intercept-every-aircraft-and-missile?t=83) Why—y-you know, sort of, your propaganda does have a downside, of course.

[1:27](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/SB9iqcsSm3cy/en/why-s-400-and-s-300-air-defenses-cannot-intercept-every-aircraft-and-missile?t=87) We start telling people how great we are, without explaining why we've been messing around with this regime for so long.