S-400 missile system

It's not Russian.

They don't use, for example, S-400 air defense systems in Serbia.

They use the Chinese... hq whatever it is equivalent um and serbia has been innovating a lot in drones um mainly as far as i can tell from more chinese um sources um they also i think uh announced recently that they were getting some uh short-range uh ballistic missiles from from china um so uh I think the Europeans are more angry about the Russia thing, frankly, but they're not hugely happy with the China thing because their own policy on China is completely confused.

So the elections were sold in Europe as a sort of a referendum on that foreign policy to some extent.

But just to remind our viewers and listeners that And we've discussed this in the past.

It boils down to one system, essentially, the S-400.

That's a surface-to-air missile system.

It's Russian.

It sort of bedrocks our surface-to-air missile defenses presently, though we are getting Indian systems and other systems as well.

And, you know, that's where we are very strong.

The Indian Air Force will never give up on the S-400 for the F-35, come what may.

It's battle-tested.

Those injured in the attack include a paramedic, a medical technician, a 20-year-old university student.

According to the Ukrainian Air Force, Russia attacked Kyiv with an unspecified number of S-400 and Iskander ballistic missiles launched from Bryansk Oblast and with 280 strike drones of various types, 69 of which were jet-powered.

According to regional authorities in Chernihiv Oblast, six people, including a 12-year-old child, were injured in a number of Russian attacks.

Regional authorities in Chernivtsi Oblast said two men were lightly injured in a Russian drone strike.

So you're instantly going to be taking much worse casualties.

I mean, the S-400, let's be realistic, the S-400 can see you at 500 kilometers.

The S-400 can reach out and touch you at 360 kilometers.

And one S-400 control block can also integrate with multiple air defense systems around it.

So you get a centralized control unit.

So, you know, how many planes could you lose? You could probably lose quite a few planes.

Really? What are these? They don't have other radars.

They've got the S-400 stacked up like cordwood right here, plus all of the launchers over here and more radar and command and control vehicles down here.

But if that's not enough, wait, there's more.

All we have to do is just go to the south side of this airfield, the southwest end.

By the way, this is an underground bunker here now for those who didn't get that.

We've built this facility in 3D from all the stuff here.

More S-400 sites.

more S-400 launchers, more S-400 launchers.

So I say the earliest it'll be is five years and probably more like 10 years.

I mean, if I were in Saudi Arabia and I wanted to solve my air defense systems as quickly as possible, I'd go straight to China and Russia without a moment's hesitation if defense was the only thing, because I would be working on the basis that the S-400 system, for example, and the S-500, NS-550.

The latter two do have capabilities against ballistic missiles.

I'd be working out that my chances of success with those weapons are much higher, not least of all because they've been tested operationally for the last four years over the skies of Russia and Ukraine.