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Panic Started In Moscow And St. Petersburg Because Of Drones

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Panic Started In Moscow And St. Petersburg Because Of Drones
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Ukraine has a window of opportunity right now.

The Russians are actively deploying detection and radar equipment in Moscow and St. Petersburg to combat Ukrainian small drones. Air Force Reserve Officer Anatoly Khrapchinsky said this on air on Radio NV.

"The Leningrad and Moscow regions are actually protected from missiles, protected from classical attack systems, aviation, but they are not protected from small drones. That is why Russia has recently been actively developing an airspace system. This is a system that includes a large number of various sensors, radar means," Khrapchinsky noted.

He specified that these radar systems are mainly Chinese, as Russia's own capabilities do not allow it to produce a large number of means. China is helping Russia.

According to the expert, although the Russians are deploying such a system, Ukraine now has a window of opportunity, and this should be taken advantage of before the emergence of Ukraine's own developments on ballistic missiles, in order to later pierce with ballistics the air defense that the Russians will form.

"If we talk about the Moscow region, and this is Dubno, Ramenskoye, and Korolevo, where the main enterprises producing Zircon, and missiles of various classes of X-101, etc. are located. This is all the Moscow region, which is qualitatively protected. Ballistics will be needed there in order to work on such objects," Khrapchinsky stressed.

He noted that the philosophy of air defense has changed significantly.

"If earlier the air defense system was deployed in the direction of the enemy, formed a separate circle of protection and early warning systems, now we should talk about the fact that even the enemy uses our airspace at low altitudes, which does not allow detection by classical radar means," Khrapchinsky said.

The expert added that in such a situation there is a need for a large number of sensors, sound and passive radar to form a qualitative picture of what is happening in the airspace.

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