Two days ago Russia unleashed another of the war’s most withering strikes on Ukraine, which was followed up the very next day by a secondary wave to finish off whatever was hit after an obligatory BDA (Battle Damage Assessment) period.
Being the largest series of strikes in some time, they revealed a heaping of new information about the state of things in Ukraine, particularly vis-a-vis Ukraine’s air defenses and upgrades to Russia’s own strike systems.
For instance spokesman for Ukraine’s airforce Yuri Ignat noted that Iskanders have been upgraded and now use a variety of countermeasures:
First he says Iskanders now fire off radar decoys and execute terminal maneuvers that make them impervious to Patriot systems. We know Iskanders have always had these abilities, but they may not have been programmed to use them in the beginning of the war, perhaps because Ukraine initially lacked the ability to shoot them down anyway, until being pumped up with Western arms.
What’s interesting is, on the previous strikes a month or so ago, the Iskander was seen to be possibly dispensing one of these radar decoy countermeasures. This was the infamous strike where a Patriot can be seen going up and missing the Iskander missile:
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