What happened to Russias Air Force? U.S. officials, experts stumped
They are afraid of<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Buk_missile_system" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Buk_missile_system</a><p>a very good technology that the Soviet Union developed which punches above its weight in situations like the Ukraine war because the mobile radars are hard to suppress with these methods<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Suppression_of_Enemy_Air_Defenses" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Suppression_of_Enemy_Air_Defen...</a><p>I have seen a huge number of Buks in various conditions in video footage from the war,  one of them was scurrying around the &#x27;suburban&#x27; areas of Kiev.  I wouldn&#x27;t be surprised if some of the early missile hits on residential buildings were something like this that failed to lock on<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Anti-radiation_missile" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Anti-radiation_missile</a><p>Ukraine has a lot of Buks,  it has a handful of these too<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;S-300_missile_system" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;S-300_missile_system</a><p>on paper those are better than the Buk but Ukraine doesn&#x27;t have so many and I think the Buk is a &quot;cheap and cheerful&quot; convivial weapon like the AK-47 that does great when exported.<p>(Both the Buk and S-300 are a lot like the US Patriot missile system in that they are comprised of a number of mobile units such as command posts, radar, missile launchers, etc.  The Buk however has a configuration where the radar and missile launcher are colocated on the same vehicle and I&#x27;d guess that configuration works really well under rough conditions with less trained crews.)