The Russian company Almaz-Antey has revealed that the new system of anti-aircraft S-500 will have a range of 600 km. This means that the destruction extending over missiles in Kaliningrad and Belarus will be the entire Polish air space.
This is not the first disturbing about the Russian military potential. In January this year. Operation Commander US Air Force in Europe and Africa gen. Frank Gorenc in an interview with New York Times alarmed that the Russian missile defense more seriously threatens access to NATO airspace over the Baltic States and one third of Polish. In practice, this can prevent any aviation operations of NATO in the region.
On the other hand, according to reports portal Defence24.pl Russians violate provisions of the INF Treaty on the elimination of intermediate-range land-based missiles. Russian propaganda films show the possibility of using the system for launchers Iskander missiles Alignment of a range exceeding 700 km. In the past year, using this type of missiles fired from ships in the Caspian Sea, the Russians attacked targets in Syria. Commentators agreed that the attack was the nature of the show a real range missiles can be up to 2 thousand. km.
In the United States 10 years ago, there were voices that the Russians broke the agreement INF Treaty. The US authorities, however, only in 2014 revealed the fact that the Russian land-based launcher missiles with a range of 2 thousand. km. USA ignored the danger of conducting only an assessment of the risks they could to bring the deployment by the Russian army this type of missiles.
Today, both Poland and the Baltic countries have no defense systems are able to intercept Russian missiles.
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| gk | Rmf24.pl, Defence24.pl, New York Times |
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