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.

Where are our S-400s and S-300s? You know, this is probably a problem related to our propaganda.

We convinced our people that we had the best surface-to-air missile systems.

That propaganda got into people's heads, while, uh—um, people don't really have that kind of knowledge from school.

They don't understand that a radar station has certain operational limitations.

Missiles can't hit a target instantly, either.

They have to fly there and keep the target under control.

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.

It approaches, pulls up, climbs, and launches missiles then turns and heads back at an extremely low altitude.

And what happens next? How can the S-400 shoot it down in this scenario?

The A-aaa flies by coordinates provided by NATO guidance systems.

Go ahead, keep listening to how we can shoot down everything, anytime, anywhere, at any altitude, even from a range of 500 kilometers.

We can! No, we absolutely can. But we won't shoot down everything.

Second point: we can't take our radar stations to the border with Ukraine, because they'll simply destroy them there.

And they can't operate properly 100 kilometers away for obvious reasons, the same reasons.

So it's all more complicated than you think.

And there aren't idiots sitting on the other side either.

Why—y-you know, sort of, your propaganda does have a downside, of course.

We start telling people how great we are, without explaining why we've been messing around with this regime for so long.