The Russian army released a video of the destruction of the Ukrainian army S300 anti-aircraft missile . The authenticity of this video is beyond doubt: because it was a Russian soldier who shot and destroyed the target dozens of meters away from the S300 missile. It can be clearly seen from the video that after the Russian soldiers fired, the S300 missile exploded violently, and the shock wave generated by the explosion of the missile affected the shooter himself and the Russian soldiers who were filming.
Regarding this video, many people focused on the "Russian soldiers' brains are too bad": Why should such expensive anti-aircraft missiles be fired and detonated? An S300 missile launch vehicle and the missiles on it are worth millions of dollars in total. It can be said to be a priceless trophy. This missile can be brought back for use by the Russian army. It is simply too much for Russian soldiers to destroy it. Stupid.
It is a misunderstanding to say that the Russian army is stupid, because it is impossible for the army of any country to destroy such expensive captured materials. The reason why the Russian army did this can only explain one thing: this S300 missile is not a trophy captured by the Russian army at the scene! The occurrence of this situation in can only explain one thing: this is a Russian special operations team that briefly rushed to the Ukrainian army's S300 anti-aircraft missile position. The Russian army's destruction of the S300 missile was just a military operation to destroy the Ukrainian army's combat equipment.
From the very risky behavior of the Russian army using firearms to destroy S300 missiles at close range on site, it can also be inferred that the situation at that time was relatively tense, and the Russian army team needed to evacuate the missile base as soon as possible, otherwise the nearby Ukrainian army would will come to support and destroy this Russian army. Even ordinary netizens know that shooting and detonating missiles at close range is very dangerous. How could Russian soldiers not know this? It can only be said that the environment at the scene was too urgent and there was no time to install a detonating device to destroy the missile. We could only take the risk and shoot to detonate the missile.
Several conclusions can be drawn from the fact that the Russian ground troops destroyed the Ukrainian air defense missiles.
First, the Ukrainian air defense forces are pursuing the strategy of "forward deployment to control the air with ground". The S300 missile is a long-range air defense missile with a range of hundreds of kilometers. In principle, this missile will not be deployed very close to the forward theater. However, the Russian army has now used ground forces to destroy it. This shows that Ukrainian anti-aircraft missiles are indeed making very bold forward deployments to prevent air strikes by Russian aerospace force aircraft. From a realistic point of view, the Ukrainian air defense forces achieved this goal: because the Russian Air Force out of fear of S300 air defense missiles, did not take advantage of its numerical advantage in military aircraft to conduct large-scale air strikes against Ukrainian ground forces.
Second, it shows that Ukraine still has a relatively large number of S300 anti-aircraft missiles. Under normal circumstances, long-range air defense missiles such as S300 should be deployed in the country's rear and important urban targets. But now Ukraine has actually placed S300 missiles in the forward area, which shows that Ukraine currently has a relatively large number of S300 missiles. Even if a few sets of missiles are placed in the forward theater, it will not affect the air defense operations in the rear.
Thirdly, the combat capability of the Russian Aerospace Force is indeed relatively weak. The war lasted for more than four months. Although the Russian military claimed that it had "destroyed hundreds of S300 missile air defense systems," Ukraine still deployed such missiles to forward positions, forcing the Russian Aerospace Forces to dare not dispatch large-scale deployments. In the end, It was the ground forces that were dispatched to eliminate the S300 anti-aircraft missiles. This fully shows that the Russian Air Force lacks effective means of attacking and suppressing the S300 missile, and also shows that the modern combat level of the Russian Aerospace Force needs to be improved.
Of course, there is another point that cannot be ignored, and that is the considerable negligence of the Ukrainian army: they believed that Russian aircraft could not destroy the S300 missile, but they ignored the ground protection of the missile, so that the Russian army unit succeeded in the surprise attack.
