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Early Access: Air Defense for Ukraine

🕑 Added 2022-03-22 08:42:35 +0000 UTC

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Richard Goldblatt

As a former US Air Defense Artillery officer trained on the Chaparral missile and Vulcan gun systems, thank you for your excellent Modern Air Defense 101 video! Although you didn’t directly state it, you covered the tenets of ADA employment- Mass Mix Mobility Integration- very well.

Timothy Mulligan

Thanks again, Chris, very well done.

Dan

very well done summary

H Norman Angell

Very helpful, thanks

Sean Tyson

Thanks for the great point regarding time needed to train (or retrain) troops in the more sophisticated, longer range air defense systems. HOWEVER, if it won't work to just send those systems to Ukraine as is, how about providing expedited training to their soldiers outside of Ukraine, then send them back in once they're learned the system? Yes, it will still take time, but I would think they could reduce the time required if you could take them out of the combat zone. Maybe.

Frank C

Thank you for the primer on air defense. When I was a youngster, my dad took me to a beach viewing area (mid 1970's). The US Army was doing an Air Defense Artillery shoot in the early evening. The shooters were a drone missile, a ground based tracked vulcan machine gun and a missile type shooter. First went the drone target. That was pretty cool. Then the vulcan. Yes tracers were used too. After the 'buurrrp', then visually following the tracers, could see the impact and hear the impact (at least that is what I though it was). Then, the missile for the larger kill. Very impressive for a young guy in the mid 1970's. Later, (of course) seeing these systems as an adult and in action is another story.

Ole Bjørsvik

Would SLAMRAAM be regarded as a medium range system?

Ole Bjørsvik

As I remember it; during the Six-Days War Israeli students in the United States were called out of universities to get training on TOW anti-tank missile systems. -- There has to be a lot of educated Ukrainians in the West that could be trained on "stuff", whether missile systems, ESM or passive radar whatever. And they doesn't need to be combat-fit. A highly educated Ukrainian mum of advanced age, could still again train others or become a technical operator or advisor. (If this lasts for another winter, I hope I could find cultural similar -- low-key North-West Europe style -- trainers I could give an assisting hand in training others for free. German ZUZ and USAF I know have a fine, low-key teaching style...)