F35 cross-border air strike on Syrian airport, Russian S400 was unaware

The Russian S400 was completely unaware of the F35 cross-border air strike on the Syrian airport

As a die-hard ally of the United States in the Middle East, Israel has a small territory, but its military strength cannot be ignored. It is one of the most powerful countries in the entire Middle East, and it is common for it to dispatch fighter planes and launch air strikes if they disagree.

Although Russia has provided military protection to Iran in response to the recent Israeli attacks, opened its bases in Syria to facilitate the takeoff and landing of Iranian aircraft, and tried to prevent Israel’s air strikes on Syria, Israel’s air strikes have not This did not stop, Syria was still under continuous Israeli air strikes.

Israeli warplanes launched another air strike on Iranian bases near the Iraqi border and destroyed Iranian arms depots. Dozens of people were killed and injured in this air strike. In addition to this air strike, Israel also used F35 stealth fighters to attack Syrian airports. In this attack, the MiG-29 fighter jets were completely targeted and destroyed in the air strike.

According to reports, after encountering this air strike, Russia dispatched a number of Il-76 and Tu-154 military transport aircraft to transport these severely damaged fighters to Iranian bases for re-repair.

Although Syria is equipped with the Russian-made S400 air defense system, during this air strike, the S400 air defense system was unaware and had no effect, which also caused Syria to suffer serious losses.

As Russia’s strongest air defense system, the S400 air defense missile has five large radars with four bands. It uses a huge two-dimensional logarithmic periodic antenna array and can detect radars 600 kilometers away. Stealth targets with a reflection area of ??less than 0.0065 square meters are considered to be the world's only meter-wave anti-stealth radar used in surface-to-air missile systems.

The Russian army has also been claiming that the S400 air defense missile can detect and lock stealth fighters, and can even shoot down stealth fighters. The F35 stealth fighters of the United States and its ally Israel have launched air strikes on Syria many times, but basically nothing happened.

So judging from the results, the S400 air defense missile does not have the ability to lock on and shoot down stealth fighters. Of course, it is also possible that the S400 anti-aircraft missiles deployed by Russia to Syria are castrated versions, and their overall performance has been weakened. Due to years of continuous war, Syria's air force strength has been greatly damaged, and it can dispatch no more than 20 MiG-29 fighters.

After being hit by Israeli air strikes, it was even worse and it lost most of its combat effectiveness. This is not good news for the Syrian government.

If we continue to encounter such intense attacks, I am afraid it will have a serious negative impact on the government's future military operations.