August 14, 2020
Sweden Says Russia's S-400 Air Defense System Is Overrated. Are They Right?
Russian long-range missile capabilities, in the anti-air, anti-ship, and anti-land realms may have been overstated in the media and in professional analysis.
by Charlie Gao
Here's What You Need To Remember: Analysts in media have overblown the threat the S-400 poses by taking claims about its range at face value, namely the 400 km figure for the 40N6 missile, and by overstating the S-400’s ability to engage incoming missiles meant to suppress or kill it.
In March 2019, the Swedish Defense Research Agency (FOI) published a report that alleges that Russia’s vaunted Anti-Access/Area-Denial (A2/AD) capabilities in the Baltic region are overrated. It presents a technical and doctrinal argument for why Russian long-range missile capabilities, in the anti-air, anti-ship, and anti-land realms, may have been overstated in the media and in professional analysis.
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/sweden-says-russias-s-400-air-defense-system-overrated-are-they-right-166862
