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Originally Posted by Wiz33
But do they actually work as demonstrated in the recent conflict. A lot of claims on Soviet era weapons are totally overhyped.. Even Old Hawk missile that stopped receiving updates in the 90s seems to be out performing current Russian equipments.
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Current Russia is not the USSR of the Cold War. Certainly Soviet-origin air defence systems have always been effective, except in conflicts like Allied Force where the US was able to gain air superiority and perform DEAD uncontested. They are certainly effective in the current conflict, to the point where neither side can reliably conduct air ops near the frontline.
People take one event like the Moskva sinking and extrapolate to the extreme from that. We could do the same with the Sheffield, the Coventry or the Stark, but noone ever seems to make the argument western equipment is useless because these ships were caught unaware.