Thread by @ChrisO_wiki

1/ The air defence system that Russia inherited from the USSR is reported to be severely undermanned and under-equipped, despite the Kremlin's efforts to renovate it. Post-Soviet cutbacks have left it unable to counter Ukrainian drone attacks. ⬇️

2/ The VChK-OGPU Telegram channel (which is continuing to publish despite Telegram handing its original channel over to a Putin crony) reports on the parlous state of Russian air defences. Coincidentally, yesterday Russia celebrated Air Defence Day.

3/ The Soviet Union had more than 250 regiments of specialist Air Defence Radio-Technical Units guarding its airspace along the borders. Only a few now remain. As a source says: "there is no early warning for air defence systems, so all sorts of UAVs easily fly...

4/ ...across the entire territory of Russia and freely attack military and industrial infrastructure facilities and even the air defence missile systems themselves."

5/ "It was the units of the radio-technical troops that provided the air defence missile systems with timely reconnaissance, giving targeting instructions.

6/ "There is no such scheme now, they are more or less able to cover only the approaches to the capital, and even then only against primitive drones."

7/ The Kremlin is reported to be trying to recreate the Soviet-era air defences, but as VChK-OGPU comments: "the entire industrial complex that produced radio-technical control equipment has been completely lost, as well as the human resource."

8/ "Now there is no money, enterprises and, most importantly, people who could produce all this.

Against this background, the Almaz-Antey concern receives huge amounts of money to create a drone flight control system over Russian territory.

9/ "It must be understood that all of A-Antey's enterprises and design bureaus are focused on producing means of fire destruction of flying aerodynamic and ballistic targets. All the information algorithms for such combat work were created back in the Soviet Union,...

10/ ... taking into account the realities of that time, and in research institutes that no longer actually exist."

11/ "At the moment, the A-Antey concern simply does not have the scientific potential to create such a system. They will master the budget money, make several bright presentations and everything will "work" on paper, says our anonymous source.

12/ "The only more or less practical anti-UAV system "Pantsir", which was created in the 90s with money from sponsors from Arab countries and was borrowed from Western models, is not produced at the enterprises of the A-Antey concern.

13/ "Not everything is in order with the Missile Attack Warning System (MAWS) and the Space Control System (SKKP). According to our sources, in 2023 alone, the domestic MAWS gave more than 7 serious "false alarms" due to failures in the hardware and computing complex.

14/ "This has never happened before in the work of the domestic MAWS."

It's possible that the reported failures are the result of corruption in the maintainance regime of the MAWS. Such problems are reported to have affected the long-range missile defence system (the SKKP).

15/ The SKKP has reportedly had reliability problems due to a scam in which cheap and unreliable foreign components were substituted for military-standard items. Several senior officials have been convicted of fraud. /end

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