... who I know from joint broadcasts at RT et al, penned an article in Air Forces Monthly magazine. Keep in mind, Mike is a professional AD officer from Serbia.
Mike is being diplomatic in this (I believe British) magazine, including a standard "objectivity" term such as "the truth is somewhere in the middle", but he is absolutely correct when stating that "Kinzhal still unbeaten" in the title to his professional note.
Needless to say, Russians do not view all versions, including latest MSE, of Patriot PAC3 as a viable anti-missile defense. It still can shoot down combat aircraft and some cruise missiles with drones--it is absolutely incapable of intercepting any kind of hypersonic weapons and supersonic ones such as P-800 Oniks. It has huge issues with classic land-attack cruise missiles such as 3M14 and Kh-101. US has absolutely no defense against hypersonic missiles anywhere on the horizon. It is simple physics--M=9+ maneuvering hypersonic missile (apart from huge issues of detecting, tracking and, let alone, having firing solution) requires a new philosophy in developing AD missile to even try to intercept a single 3M22 Zircon, not to speak of a salvo of same. The technological challenge is immense and NATO has no answer for that. Fact is, good ol' P-700 Granit (SS-N-19 Shipwreck) can still provide leakers in salvo against modern NATO navies' AD.
P.S. Per these French escapades with a "shadow fleet" tanker. Well, Russian Navy will have to simply establish convoy system. Does Marine Royale want to get sunk? Or better yet, how many Oreshniks it takes to free some good real estate areas in Paris?
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