Karachi:
The Prime Minister of India, Modi, posed in front of an S-400 missile launcher during a visit to the Adammpur Air Base on Tuesday, a movement of the Indian media framed as a “verification of facts” of Pakistan’s statement that he had neutralized two of the advanced systems during the Bunyanum Marsoos operation.
But photography may have provided weight inadvertently to Pakistan’s statement, precisely because of what was missing in the image.
In an X post [formerly Twitter]The expert in Asia in southern USA. UU., Christopher Clary, said that although there is still no concrete evidence of Pakistani success against the S-400, Pakistan would be “at least so likely, if not more likely, to point to the command center or the radar that the pitcher” of the air defense system.
“Maybe those systems are in other photos,” Clary published. In a subsequent publication, he shared photos of a S-400 command and control center destroyed in the Ukraine War, along with two radar vehicles commonly matched with the system.
According to an explanator of the TRT World Research Center, the S-400 system is designed to detect and destroy aircraft, cruise missiles and ballistic missiles. A 2021 research work published in the Indo-Pacific affairs magazine, establishes that each S-400 system includes two batteries.
Each battery comprises a command and control unit, a surveillance radar, a compromise radar and four launch trucks called “Transporter-Rector-Reellene”. According to TRT World, a complete battalion consists of eight pitchers, each capable of carrying four missiles
The S-400 has a range of 250 to 400 kilometers, depending on the type of missile, and can go to objects at altitudes of up to 30 kilometers. The system mainly uses the 48n6 missile series, which can intercept aerial objectives up to 250 kilometers away and ballistic missiles within a radius of 60 kilometers.
In a statement issued on Saturday, the Pakistani army said it had successfully destroyed a S-400 Indian battery parked at the Adammpur Air Force station in the Jalandhar district of Punjab, using hypersonic missiles guided by precision launched from a JF-17 platform.
