Russians Lost an S-400 Near Moslyne, Donetsk Region

May 2024.

ATACMS strikes on the Russian S-300/400 air defense system. Near Mospyne, Donetsk region.

An S-400 battery is destroyed while reflecting a strike by at least 6 ATACMS Block IA operational-tactical ballistic missiles near Mospino (40 km southeast of Donetsk) on 22 May 2024.
All 6 target channels of the 92Н6 multifunctional illumination and guidance radar were engaged to illuminate 6 or 12 48Н6ДМ surface-to-air guided missiles.

Nevertheless, at least one MGM-140A missile managed to penetrate the 35-50 degree ‘dead funnel’ in the upper hemisphere above the illumination and guidance radar and hit most of the SAM elements (including the AESA 96Л6-ЦП radar, 4 launchers type 5П85СМ2-01 and the combat control centre).

Unfortunately, it draws attention to the fact that the battery has no more than 4 launchers 5П85СМ2-01 with a total ready ammo of 16 48Н6ДМ missiles. It is also quite obvious that this battery had to cope with 7-10 ATACMS missiles alone, which led to this result.
This means that in the best case scenario, i.e. that all missiles can be fired at the same time and guided, a single battery will be overloaded with 8 enemy missiles (2 interceptors are fired per missile as a general rule), again, this is if all are guaranteed to be guided, as the guidance radar has only 6 channels, which can lead to saturation with 7 missiles.

Each operational direction should be covered not by single and incomplete anti-aircraft missile battery, but by 2 to 4 full-fledged divisions with 12 SAMs and 48 anti-aircraft missiles, as well as a significant number of dispersed 9A317M Buk-M3 firing units.

A real-time interconnection between all available systems that is resistant to interference must be guaranteed (in parallel this would help in the identification of friend-enemy, which has caused so many problems).

The enemy should not be underestimated.

Note:

"In general, I received comprehensive information on this incident ; in fact, it differs from what I assumed only in small details, and not in essence.
Publicly, I can only add that the entire S-400 crew is alive due to the fact that the time has already been calculated when it is already pointless to fight against the ATACMS of its target and there is time for the personnel to take cover.
There were officially 7 missiles, 5 of them were shot down, 1 worked.

Well, the most important thing is that this bug will be fixed in the very near future. And besides, the list of air defense systems capable of working with such ballistics will expand significantly.

Once again, I cannot help but note the legion of stubborn domestic idiots who are experts in fake videos, correct starts, splices and other revelations.
They really are already doing more harm than crests"