Funniest Propaganda : Americans Knock Out Of S-400 Sams In Simulated Strikes !!
Transporter-erector-launchers associated with a Russian S-400 surface-to-air missile system
After seeing that the American CAATSA law and the threat of its use was unable to dissuade India from going ahead with the S400 deal with Russia, a fresh propaganda has been launched to sow doubts about the system. This is the new trick bomb.
“Two strikes were conducted against those two S-400s,” an individual is heard saying in English at one point in the video, seen above, which is made up of a number of disjointedly edited-together clips, during what appears to be a briefing on new developments as part of the scenario. “We are still awaiting battle damage assessments [BDA] from yesterday’s strike.”
So it is through such “Simulated strikes” on a pair of Russian-made S-400 surface-to-air missile batteries as part of the still ongoing U.S. Army-led Africa Lion 2021 exercise that is taking place in various countries in North and West Africa, that the Americans want to dissuade India and hoping that the deal will not get through.
However the Russian government continues to actively market export variants of the S-400, to even to smaller countries, and thus causing persistent concerns within the U.S. military about the general increasing effectiveness of this higher-end air defence assets.
The inclusion of these threats to attacking US combat jets in African Lion 2021’s training scenarios is also notable given that there were indications last year that the Russians had introduced S-400 or S-300 systems into the civil conflict in Libya. Though the U.S. Africa Command itself has denied occurrence of such deployment.
It’s unclear what assets the CPX participants employed to carry out these simulated strikes. AFRICOM has said that unspecified U.S. and Moroccan fighter jets, as well as American bombers, have or will take part in other portions of African Lion 2021, as they have in other iterations of this exercise. At least one B-52H bomber flew a training mission to West Africa’s Gulf of Guinea from Moron Air Base in Spain on June 9, but it’s not clear if this was related to African Lion 2021.
Morocco flies advanced Block 52+ F-16C/D Viper fighter jets that could be employed in the suppression and destruction of enemy air defences, missions sets commonly abbreviated as SEAD and DEAD, respectively. Moroccan jets may be armed with AGM-88E Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missiles (AARGM) to bolster the ability of F-16s to carry out these missions.
High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS), which are capable of firing short-range ballistic missiles, in addition to 227mm artillery rockets, have also taken part in other segments of the exercise.
Tunisia is also participating in the exercise, according to an official Africa Command (AFRICOM) press release sent out on June 7. The annual African Lion exercise started as a bilateral training engagement between the U.S. military and its Moroccan counterparts, but has since evolved into a regional event. This year’s iteration also includes various training in Morocco, as well as Senegal, in addition to Tunisia. Ghana, where AFRICOM established a logistics hub in 2019, is supporting the exercise, as well. A number of other countries in and outside of North and West Africa are also actively taking part in the training or have sent observers.
There have been persistent rumours that the Algerian military has fielded S-400s, there is no clear evidence to substantiate those claims. Algeria did receive S-300PMU-2 surface-to-air missile systems from Russia starting in 2010, and at least one picture that some have suggested shows transport-erector-launchers (TEL) associated with Algerian S-400s appears to actually be of these earlier acquisitions. A number of configurations of the S-400 system, originally known as S-300PMU-3, use variants of the same TELs employed with the older S-300PMU-2.
In August 2020, pictures had emerged on social media that purported to show the deployment of S-300 or S-400 surface-to-air missile systems to that country. The appearance of those images came amid a surge in fighting, and an expanding air war, between the U.N.-recognized and primarily Turkish-backed Government of National According (GNA) and the Libyan National Army (LNA), which has received support from Russia, among other foreign powers.
In September 2020, U.S. Navy Rear Admiral Heidi Berg, AFRICOM’s top intelligence officer, told reporters that the command did not believe S-300s or S-400s had been deployed in Libya, but that it believed Russia was interested in doing so.
The Russian government has sold S-400s to China, Turkey, India, and Belarus and now even Iran is getting interested in it. This has thus become a big worry for Pentagon. In 2017, these surface-to-air missile systems were ordered by Turkey, a NATO member, which touched off a major spat between Ankara and those in the United States. Operational security concerns stemming from this purchase ultimately led to Turkey’s expulsion from the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) program.
The S-400 and S-300 are not the only longer-range surface-to-air missile systems on the international market, either. For example, China offers the FD-2000, an export variant of its HQ-9, itself an S-300 analogue. Before signing the S-400 deal with Russia, Turkey had also planned to buy FD-2000s, before cancelling that order in the face of much superior S400.
The increasing deployment of these kinds of longer-range air defence capabilities, as well as of more modern short and medium-range surface-to-air missile systems, prevents blatant interference of the U.S. military in regional conflicts.
This CPX conducted as part of African Lion 2021 certainly seems to underscore general concerns about the expanding availability of S-400s and similar-long-range surface-to-air missile systems now available on the export market.
And in the simulation even if the S400 system was knocked out, so what? The american supplied F16 with which the PAF came to threaten India was not “ simulated” but real and it got knocked out by daring Wing Commander Abhinandan flying a generation older MiG21 !!. Even in 1965 war the mighty American supplied F86 Sabers were taken 9n by the tiny Gnats of the IAF.
So the first of the S400 system will get deployed by the IAF within few months, no matter what.
