Agents of the Ukrainian partisan movement "ATESH" report serious problems with the air defense of Russian troops in the Zaporizhia direction.
According to them, the equipment is in a catastrophic state due to a combination of several factors: international sanctions, strikes by the Ukrainian Defense Forces on repair facilities, and manufacturing defects. This has led to a mass failure of anti-aircraft systems, in particular the Tor air defense system.
Due to the acute shortage of serviceable systems, the occupiers are forced to use tractors to tow launchers to positions. This method of use makes the equipment vulnerable and effectively turns expensive systems into easy targets for the Ukrainian military.
A separate problem is the shortage of spare parts. Enterprises of the military-industrial complex, operating in overload mode, produce low-quality parts. They quickly fail, which further complicates maintaining the combat readiness of air defense systems.
The "ATESH" guerrillas emphasize that each complex they discover with fixed coordinates and operating mode will be a potential target for pinpoint strikes by the Ukrainian Defense Forces.
Recall that the Tor SAM is a Russian/Soviet short-range anti-aircraft missile system developed in the USSR in the 1970s and designed to destroy aircraft, helicopters, cruise missiles, and drones at low and medium altitudes.
The complex is a self-propelled unit that combines on one chassis a radar detection station, a guidance station and vertical launchers with 8 or 16 anti-aircraft guided missiles, depending on the modification. The system can simultaneously detect up to 48 targets, track up to 10 of them and hit up to 4 targets at a distance of up to 12-16 km and an altitude of up to 10 km. "Tor" is distinguished by high autonomy of operation, rapid deployment and the possibility of use in conditions of active electronic warfare.
Previously, agents of the ATES movement established contact with employees of the Kazan Gunpowder Plant in Russia, which is one of the key enterprises of the defense-industrial complex of the occupying country.