Ukraine’s Western backers have sent sophisticated air defence systems to Kyiv, but the Ukrainian army still relies on Soviet-era equipment to defend its cities.
Al Jazeera’s @CharlesStratford reports from Kyiv, Ukraine.
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@Dewy Ukraine provided 5k soldiers for that Iraq invasion
@Dewy Ukraine is backed by enemies of Africa, you know how the saying goes a friend of your enemy is your enemy too
Edit: not forgetting how Ukraine poorly handled African immigrants when the war first started
@Dewy by accepting NATO to use them to fight our saviour Russia for hegemony masculinity.
@Dewy ummmmmm
Well. Let’s start with Ukraine sending 87% of their grain to the European countries who didn’t need it. And 13% to other countries including Africa who desperately needed it.
What a disgusting pathetic comment you stupid moron
I personally hate western and his ally but I also don’t like innocent ppl suffer..
Why does he talks about defence problems on tv? The enemy can use it.
That is because the enemy knows that already. All thing that their said is public knowledge
I hope so, I hope Russia is watching
His enemy? And he calls himself a journalist
He is not a journalist! These Westerners are actors! That’s why journalism died in tbe West long time ago. He is acting out foolishness
Watch CNN propaganda thy will entice as you wish with the comedian of the year performing in USA
There will never be ww3 because usa is scared and will use proxies
Anyone gonna make fun of Ukraine for using Soviet era weapons or does that only apply to Russia?
@Edu Wino yet europigs and AmeriSwines modern weapons failing one by one lol 😆 🤣 😂
Well the detail you are missing is that Russia was suppoes to be 2ed greates millitary and could technology wise compete with USA.
Truth is ofc way different.
Ukraine has never been considered a near peer enemy.
So there is your answeer for why people makes fun of Russia using soviet equipment that is over 50 years old
@TheFlamio what you fail to understand is the Russians use what works not what is more recent or expensive.
@Edu Wino did I trigger you? Lol
@Tamless we are just laughing at the weak coping, your Russian boyfriends struggling against a weak country
Where is the US million dollar air defence system
Ops forget sold in black market 😁
these people think that the missiles given to ukraine will be used immediately without needing time to be send to ukraine and train ukrainian personnel to use them😂
@gff they think this is Call Of Duty, just press on that button 😂
Or you can go to YouTube, during the fight to watch some tutorial😂😂
They even tried to sell of a crated chopper few days ago😂😂😂😂…maybe the smuggler paid to low and they got caught at a Hungarian border post.
Nah that was the Russians 😆😅🤣😂😂.
Did we not have 20000 tanks in storage. Well yes and no
@0westdude 🤣🤣🤣
Germany can’t even protect their own gas pipelines. How they going to train Ukrainian army.
Oh that’s right. Germany belongs to the US now.
How about the m134 minigun
Soon they will start using slingshots
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Iron dome
Patriots costing 3-4 million per missile is technically ineffective for Kiev area as they won’t down drones of 20k and cruise missile of 100k and aircraft won’t come into it’s range making it useless.
@Mai Welsh makes sense but, I don’t think uncle Sam will allow that to happen, they have strict regulations on operation of their weapons even those which are sold countries which are not in war.
@SANIDUL ISLAM true but they seem to be letting the rules become more flexible
@Mai Welsh attacks on Russian soil was carried out by Soviet era missile or drones, after that incident us confirmed that they has not enabled ukr to strike target inside of Russia. Can’t say about their flexibility. They simply don’t wanna get involved.
@SANIDUL ISLAM true but I meant they seemed ok with turning a blind eye and there were no repercussions either. They could also now hit all the major bridges and supply routes
@Mai Welsh yep, i get it. You are right though, what I’m saying what extend they would make it flexible.
I know what is the solution… you need iron dome…
Iron dome is the patriot system, its useless for ukraines needs too expensive to operate against drones and missiles with such a high failure rate against saturation attacks.
That would help. I don’t think the Israelis want to help them put it up though
dont forget russia have base in Syria .near the israel .
Peace 🕊️ is better
Russia cnt lose
yeah tell putin give up and draw his force on ukraine territory
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How very very sad.
The latest Patriot system that Ukraine is getting is $1 billion. Yes, a billion dollars.
Missiles cost $4-$5 million each.
Definitely not going to be used on drones.
Boy, those HIMARS have gotten awful quiet for the last month or so. I hope this isn’t something like the TB-2 drone “news” falling silent after May; come to find-out, they all actually got wiped-out after the first week.
@Mai Welsh why can’t i believe it when they got hold of a full himars rocket and studied it some few months ago
@Benjamin Johnson Boston Donnie will take care. Maga fool
@Ravgm Singh just like sleepy Joe
? There was several HITS by HIMARS in recent week, barracks full of soldiers and a hotel with officers including Dmitry Rogozin, more ammo storage also hit
@Benjamin Johnson Boston gotcha!
too much intel is shared allowing the enemies to use that against them. its something I seen from the starts..
Did you “seen” it ?
How do you know intel is being shared? This would not be made public surely?
Sometimes these are designed to fool enemies. Bots take bait too
@Mai Welsh lol if we know it, they know it.
@Joel Lee yeah but then it’s hardly confidential intel is it. So maybe we should just call it gossip
They Should arm all civilians with weapons to shoot down those drones and missiles
Ukraine needs everything they can get to defend their home
Silahkan mengemis sebanyak mungkin. Kebodohan presiden ukraina, kenapa pilih presiden komedian?
Why can’t a system be designed to lock on to the acoustic signature of the Iranian drone, especially if they are so loud? There are already acoustic targeting systems. It is a question of adapting them to small missiles that can be manufactured cheaply. They can operate on the doppler shift principle and as long as they are sensitive enough to separate the specific signature from the noise then they should prove effective enough to work in foggy weather just like radar.
They are short range but if there fast enough and many of them they can still catch these kamikaze drones on their closing stages of 500-800 meters.
@exiledgypsy. Yes, there are systems that can take out drones like Shaheed. It’s called iron-beam; they use ultra-high energy laser to destroy the target. Unfortunately Israel isn’t sharing the tech with Ukraine. The laser air defense can also destroy cruise missiles or ballistic missiles but the amount of energy needed to destroy target is very-very high.Most of these systems are in the prototype stages.
@nc01sadh lol ashramchaap gandu boosting their master weapons lol shitrael iron doom will get exposed if it comfort real army, it’s effective against homemade rockets lol 😆 😄 😂
@nc01sadh That technology is useless for Ukraine.
Israel is a tiny country and their system requires absolutely phenomenal amounts of electrical power to generate powerful enough lasers. It is not practical for Ukraine, especially now that they don’t even have enough electricity for hospitals.
So, that is out of the question.
Besides, even Israel’s laser system is not fully operational and does not have an immediate effect. It requires remaining focused on the drone for a few seconds. It is also no good in bad weather. The kind of weather that is more frequent in Ukraine than in Israel.
What I was talking about were acoustic targeting systems. They work in foggy weather and don’t necessarily even need radar.
The only disadvantage is that they are short-range, only up to 1km at best but so is the Israeli laser system. So you need lots and lots of them to catch the drones on their last kilometer from the target. And they also need to have fast accelerations.
There are such systems available but only for detection and not destruction but even that is better than nothing if they are backed up with anti-air guns.
The problem is as always the production capacity. But even a few hundred can back up other anti-air defenses for important infrastructure.
Given the necessary components, I don’t see why the Ukrainians can’t build them.
All they need to do it to turn it into a guidance system and mount it on a small but fast projectile.
They need to do it. Other countries are not going to expand production capacities for their sake.
@ExiledGypsy I’d like to see some targeting accuracy stats on such systems….acoustic interference is common and very easy and cost-effective to generate as a countermeasure or otherwise use for cover, and drastically lowers the reliability of such systems. What happens if someone or something generates a sound similar to the lawn mower engine the drones use? At best it pulls the targeting off, at worst it can be friendly fire or collateral damage.
@ayoungethan Iranian drones can’t afford to have noise countermeasures. Their advantage is being cheap and besides noise countermeasures will have to be short-range which can easily be taken into account like in noise canceling technologies. They can’t jolly well drown their noise with massive loudspeakers as companions on their flight route and even then they just make bigger targets.
I did check the current technology and according to the articles and promotion material, they are very sensitive. You can google them yourself.
As I said they are already used for drone detection and locating for airports, probably using triangulation. So if they are good enough for detecting commercial drones around airports I presume they must be quite sensitive. But turning that into a guidance system probably requires further work but given that the principles involved are analogous to those of radar guidance systems I can’t see any fundamental hurdle except being limited to short-range.
They basically work very much like radar arrays, using a matrix of unidirectional microphones that use doppler shift and noise signatures that are very specific to specific types of drones.
These Iranian drones are slow and noisy and fly low. So they are perfect targets for acoustic systems, especially in cloudy weather. Their radar signature is too small and can easily be mistaken for birds or vice versa.
Besides, do you have a better proposal?
Is there left to defend..ha ha
God Bless Mother Ruussia ❤️
If the Russians are using these Soviet era weapons, Western military experts and mainstream media will call it obsolete! But same weapons in the hands of Ukrainians are praised and hailed as awesome! Western narratives are not only absurd but stupid!
It doesn’t matter; your incredulity isn’t going to magically place Russian troops back in Kherson…
May God’s Kingdom and not Putin’s reign over Ukraine this Christmas. May the Prince of Peace visit Ukraine this Christmas and may his Jewish Mother comfort all Ukrainians who have lost loved ones. May all who have died – especially 4 year-old Liza who was killed in Vinnytsia – Rest in Peace.
Did you remember God and His kingdom when Ukraine was busy killing ethnic Russians for 8 years? God will not hear your idiotic prayers! Stop fooling yourself.
Ur God already died like a Dog on cross ✝️ 🤧 🙏 😪
And 14000 innocent civilians killed in the Dombass over the past 9 years. Don’t forget the 48 innocent Ukrainians burnt alive in the trade union building in Odessa during 2014 maidan coup by the Ukrainian Nazi’s.
This all happened long before Putin’s “rein” over Ukraine. Educate yourself. Watch the documentary “Ukraine on fire”. You might learn something for yourself instead of the brainwashing you have by main stream media. Just trying to help. And merry Xmas
What about Krishna and Allah?
Poland produces PSR-A Pilica system. 23 mm antiaircraft gun, with very modern electronics, automatic aim system and day/night shooting ability. It would be great against Iranian drones.
God bless Poland and Ukraine. God will strengthen you all. Help and uphold all with God’s right hand of righteousness. God bless all. 💕 🌈🙏
@jcbel shut the f@ upp dont use god you devil worshipper ,son of a b@tch
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Transformers take a year to build and deliver. a swarm of 50 drones will take out the Patriot on day 2
Rental and portalble generators is a thing you know 😉.
Search fukasima
The same was said about HIMARS and here we are right
@TheFlamio Every drop of fuel used to run generators cannot be used to move Military objects. The Power plants used to power cities are gigawatt systems Nuclear and other. you can’t replace that with Diesel generators.
@Enrique LaRoche it’s not a 1:1 swap. Only a fraction of power generation is needed for essential life support systems. It won’t be comfortable but it will keep people warm, fed and alive.
@ayoungethan Wont heat water wont run pumps or elevators. or factories etc can keep a light on and charge your phone
Decommunist, anti-Soviet.
But rely on Soviet weapons
yes, they use what they have access to, including soviet weapons. It’s amazing what they are accomplishing considering that they have no standard weapons systems. It is opportunistic and nothing more. The only reason they have those systems is because the USSR had once swallowed them whole, and Putin wants to swallow them again. It’s not a hard concept to understand!
@ayoungethan they are created by USSR. Now it should be undone.
Fly the drones at night
Notice they wont tell you how much of Ukraine’s energy systems are already down
It probably changes all the time so I doubt there is much point in doing that
@Mai Welsh NASA has photos from space the lights are out 80% or more
Put large saggy nets over the infrastructure
Nice battlefield Ukraine become of west and Russia, testing all new toys and weapons, poor Ukrainians are really retarded and blind to see that looks like.
“ALL rubbish!”
“Boiled cabbage”
“WAR is for SLAVS, gold and silver for us!”
“Thank you for defending international THIEVES in Ukraine.”
“Thank you for defending “western values,” defending “western” DICTATORSHIPS peddling LGBT and PEDERASTS’ PROPAGANDA.”
“Slava Ukraini, Heroyam Slava!!!”
-Sir Lord, Dr. Bean Cleverly
-of NATO and other realms Including ALL American colonies and STATES.
God will protect Ukrainian people though perpetrators are happy of what they’re doing.
God protects no one! That’s why we have wars, disease, hunger, and crime.
slava russia
Go out leave Ukraine alone. RuZzia, Villages, regions, cities are big, liiving poor people, living Alcoholism, crimes, corruption, streets are Full of muds, buildings houses infras are destroyed , no water supply, no electricity and no foods living poverty there. So sad poor oder people living in an abandon villages and houses. But for dirty crime war illegal occupying Ukraine had more time to spend. That’s the truth and behind the bars.
@jcbel slava russia
Hahahahaha stupid ukranazis seem terrified and I love it, for the last 8 years they have been doing it to Luhansk and Donestk killing more than 14,000+ civilians and no one seem to care, now with more than 100,000+ dead and around 300,000+ maim, injured, out of service troops now Ukraine is experiencing what those civilians in the Eastern part of Ukraine experienced, is not the same when you throw a punch and the new guy punched back even harder uh Ukraine??
Go Russia 🇷🇺⭐🇷🇺!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Good luck and victory to Ukraine!
Strong support Ukraine 🔥🔥🔥
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4 million dollar missile to take out a 40 thousand suicide drone 😂
That could lead to millions in damage. And no, this isn’t for drones. You should read more.
@Álvaro watched it all. Using 4 million dollar missiles to defend a nation isn’t sustainable. Even a Russian cruise missile cost 250 thousand. US doesn’t give a stuff about Ukraine, it’s main objective is to weaken Russia militarily & financially. In the end Russia will win & Ukraine will be destroyed. The earlier they go to the negotiating table the better for them.
Ukraine must also attack the powerlines and grid of russia to experience what the ukrainians are experiencing now during winter.
I don’t know how they can even survive the winter, surely they didn’t see the satellite images at the borders
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This is like CCP-PLA expeditionary forces vs. UN forces in the Korean peninsula.
Severely under equipped with inferior quality, Pentagon’s “used car” purchased weapons and limited non uniform ammunition.
Proxy US, Z army with $60 billion budget versus Russian Southwestern Command , fully motorised with $150 billion budget (at purchase parity advantage probably 4x, it is $600 billion).
Hard to imagine any other outcome.
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@Kong Thai no he has given more money than that and the European Union has given them more
@Mai Welsh actually arrived in Ukrainian soil is less than 200 units, and in September they had 0.7mil 155mm munition.
They are out of ex Soviet munition stored by Poland, Czech, probably sourced African, South Asia, China PRC (not successful).
Now forced to use NATO ammo. Ukraine itself is crippled, can no longer produce much ammo.
Russian Southwestern command keeps encouraging Ukrainian use of ammo
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@Kong Thai I am sure Ukraine will get whatever aid it needs to continue its fight
@Mai Welsh To properly armed and trained the Z proxy army of 1.0 million men. (for what is an non viable state if 10 million senior or aged living with gathered food, warm by firewood, 3 million financed by US cash, of which 1.0 million are soldiers, 2.0 million employed by the state and the missing 2 to 7 million).
It should cost $3 trillion to gather the arms, accumulate the tanks, armour vehicle, trucks, engineers, specialist units…..
Otherwise with $60 billion a year, few major equipment, insufficient ammo. (With Russian Southwestern command destroying supply chain, infrastructure increasing the pressure for Z regime to comply. The Special Military Operations has depopulate, recover sea ports, iron & steel operations, wheat, corn, barley fields, and probably a quarter of the ex-Ukraine population. Provide the Russian construction, industrial, retail, services huge rebuilding bonanza.
What USA 🇺🇸 has built is one million “human wave 🌊” army 450 km away from Moscow.
Where this condition will evolve is interesting. (To EU, CIS, Arab world, Mughal world). The Contagion effect keeps many nations concerned.
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@Kong Thai sorry your comment is way too long and I don’t have time to read or respond right now
Ukraine is in the dark so it’s obviously isn’t working
Russia defending Ukraine people in Donestk….o yes it’s bias only Russia can do wrong
show me
Stop deceiving your self for notin 😬😬 kyiv will soon b wipe out 🙌 better go nd negotiate with Russia for peace before is late 😬😬😬
Russia is not fighting Ukraine but fighting the West. Sad to see the states and Europe starting yet another war
Really?…when Russia rain bombs and missiles in Kyiv their air defense system is the LAUGHING STOCK worldwide…>energy and elecricity infrastructures are TOTALLY DAMAGE😛😜🤪🤣😂🤣😂
Never heard so much bull
I don’t know why Ukraine is desperate for air defence systems. Russia ran out of missiles months ago 🤣🤣
Maybe the want to use then to attack
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Imagine thinking you’re the good guys, praying for civilians to suffer from missile attacks and nuclear threats…
America is turning Ukraine into a sea of blood. Enjoy .
They must be the most useless protection crew given the state of Kyiv’s electricity status from the damage caused by the Russian missiles and drones.
Those crews are actually doing a wonderful job, this people are the ones putting the VKS at bay.
They don’t have the defence capability . The patriotic missle should help them more but they need s300 or s400
They are great, they take down most missiles and drones but even a few that make it to target can cause massive damage.
@nicke0b so the missiles were landing and they were busy taking photoshoots instead of showing us what they were capable of. But I guess their main function is to pose for photos to impress ignorant journalists and people like you.
Drone attacks can be stopped, Ukrainians fire ballistic missiles when Khamenei runs cermons on Friday in Qom City.
THR CAPITAL DIDN’T GET SERIUS ATTACT FROM.RUSSIA IS NOT BECAUSE OF THOSE KIND OF OLD WEAPON BUT THERE IS BECAUSE OF RUSSIAN NOT TARGETTING TO TAKE UKRANIAN COUNTRY…BELONG RUSSIA AFTER BUT THERE IS ANOTHER GOAL’S ANYWAY…MOST PEOPLE KNOW ABOUT IT
SPEAK ENGLISH. YOU SOUND DYSLEXIC
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드론공격에는 대한민국 비호복합이 딱인데… 지원할수없으니 안타깝습니다. 우크라이나에 영광을~~~
Merry Christmas to everyone who supports Ukraine! ❤️🇺🇦🎄☃️
And We’re complaining about the weather here,,,
Well wishes for Russia our friend in tough times.
Love from India.
Wishes won’t re-capture Kherson.
And wish and hope our Almighty God, in his mighty name of Jesus chase the enemies terror ruzzi army. God strengthen Ukraine abd fight for their freedom from the invader ruZzian. God will uphold you all Ukrainians army in his right hand of his righteousness..Angel of God chase destroy all the enemies weapons, ammu missiles and tanks. Destruction come upon the enemies at unwares. Bring slippery, confusion and limp. In the mighty name of Jesus is our salvation and victory 🌈 shalom 🙏
You can try and insult the name of India, but we see through you fakery. Slava Ukraini. Namaste.
They need a gunner on a crop duster!!
Slava Russia 🇷🇺👍🏻💪🏻
Keep sending them to the meat grinder. And when it’s time get in line.
That’s the most effective way to shoot down drones. Not using air defense systems but small units like this. Cheap weapons require inexpensive systems to deal with them. Ukraine will adapt to drones and be able to shoot all of them down in the near future. War requires adaptation.
News or simply reiterating Western Mainstream Media propaganda set to elicit empathy for the so called “Ukrainian democratic stance!!!”
Even patriots will be useless & old defence sytem when compare to Russian supersonic missile.
Kia Kaha nga hoa (stay strong friends) as your fighting for your own & the worlds freedoms!!! As China, Iran, North Korea have been just like Russia provoking the rest of the world to stand against incompatible imperialist countries that have always wanted to oppress the world through aggressive / violent / human rights abusive ways; yet talk verbal diarrhea…
USA has very good business in Ukraine but Ukraine people still thinking that they helping them 🤣
Komedian how knows
Zelenskyy is sacrificing his men for nothing…negotiate with Putin and come to terms that neutrality is the way out of this armed conflict.
Install iron dome also , but how you get million of dollars for a missile 🙏
Am highly disappointed in Al Jazeera which has shifted away from it founding motto based on both opinions. All we see is Ukraine Ukraine Ukraine.
Good journalists never just report “both opinions.” They help determine credibility and only use credible sources. Russia commonly issues propaganda statements that have no credible basis, such as claims of genocide in SE Ukraine, which was independently verified as false. Putin’s claim is that “all of reality is against him.” In truth, he is just against all of reality. Watch Fox if you want Russian propaganda. Al Jazeera is too credible to be used as a mouthpiece for Putin’s imperialist propaganda.
Let’s Go 💪🇺🇦
We’re working to build better machines to kill each other.
Millions are hungry and without food, shelter and water
Money doesn’t matter to the US government!!! Lolz
Their not very effective, obviously.
Ukrainians killing Ukrainians 😭😭😭
runny nose cough nasal congestion and sneeze.
Putin is like the Grinch who tried and failed to steal Christmas. He only made Ukrainians stronger haha
Haha?
Do you know that each third soldier in our army which is liberating now Ukraine of neo-nazists are ukranians?
Don’t know?
Search more info about what is going on. I can suggest you find Patrick’s Lancaster reportages.
Americans are luxurious fighters. They fight very expensive. Afew drones of $20K can put an end to the Patriot missile system.
Fight cheaper but in higher numbers to be more effective
May Putin win this war, may Russia defeat US and NATO
Slava Ukraini.
Although I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I fear no evil. For we shall defeat Russian threats.
Thank you for your bravery
Iran should be ashamed of themselves. Their weapons are killing innocents
You talking about ukranian Asov battalion? Check for information about it in Vikipedia… and you will understand why our special operation called “denazification of Ukraine”!
20 years Afganistan and Iraq …what about Ukraine?
🇷🇺👍💪keep Brutal action on their enemy
They need sometype of emp device for the drones
Nothing wrong with Soviet era equipment, was well made for it’s era
Zelensky si pengemis. Merengek senjata . Presiden pelawak bodoh
Protect what a f….The ukranazis pigs up and being bomber to the stone age almost
Ukraine at the edge of defeat lots Ukrainian dying very bad
But why energy ifra water system are broken means security air defend of Ukraine still poor
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the equipment being sent is no better than the soviet stuff. but there isnt much left any more. the bes outcome for the west is to extend the war a bit. they know it wont change anything. as long as nato dont run ou tof ukrainians then it will go a bit longer
Everything will be Ukraine!
Yeaahh very useful as we all could see😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Only way this war ends is with that globalist racketeer Zelensky either dead, resigned, or imprisoned.
God bless Putin and his troops 🇷🇺🇧🇾👍.jn