Thread by @magictouch190

In the first days of the Feb 2022 invasion two S-300PS battalion sites of the UkrAF's 208th air defense missile brigade in Kherson region were overrun by advancing enemy forces. The following is a high-res-but-blurry sat image of the Nova Kakhovka site from May 2022
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Enemy helicopters are seen using the site as a forward operating base. Damaged/destroyed S-300 equipment is also visible
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1-3: likely remains of full gang (1 master, 2 slave) of S-300PS launchers
4-5: likely remains of 2 launchers
6-7: likely remains of 2 launchers
8: unknown, possibly remains of equipment but not clear
10: destroyed building
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11: mobile radar tower (doesn't mean anything, these are relatively abundant and have been often left behind)
20: usual location of main radar. No battle damage evident. Radar was either evacuated by Ukrainian forces or by the russians, but likely not destroyed

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31-33: enemy helicopters

A couple months after this the HIMARS enters the picture. A sat pic from October shows no battle damage from Ukrainian strikes but also no real ru presence (helos are gone, no heavy equipment at all)

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This battalion in has had 10-11 launchers in recent years. Ref pic from GE.

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Observations:
a) if all 7 are indeed destroyed launchers then this is unusually heavy damage for a UkrAF S-300 base, can't think of another that was hit this hard

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b) fate of remaining launchers and battalion radar not clear, but it would be consistent with them being deployed off site. However... such equipment was pictured damaged/destroyed nearby

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c) despite this site being under ru control for 8 months I do not believe that pictures of the damaged/destroyed equipment from the ground have emerged so far

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