At Least 9 Pantsir S1 Destroyed In Turkish Drone Strikes Within A Week: Reports

Pantsirs have an operational range of 20 km. LNA overstretched them so much in a vast 2 million square km area that there range was just unconnected small circles on the map. Turkish drone on the other hand have an operational time of half a day. They simply flied around them and attacked transportation lines. Then they bated the system until they run out of ammunition. Now who provided logistical support for the Turks, is not known, but it wouldn’t have been difficult to gather it by themselves. They only had to observe few highways . Egypt could have prevented this by simply closing the air space of Libya. It could have swept away Erdogan’s terrorist drone army in a day, and gave air cover to LNA. It has a fleet of 500 high altitude aircraft, refueling tankers and AWACS to do it. It has also long range A/A weapons and cruise missiles to prevent any threat to its planes.

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Always the same with those Arab countries with to much money, buy expensive shit, just drop it somewhere without a battle plan or any tactical insight, put a crew of untrained apes/monkeys mercenary’s to operate it, en then watch it all fail.

I always enjoy reading comments from people who have no idea how weapon systems work.

First let me say that no air defence in the world is invisible and indestructible, so if a Pantsir gets destroyed its not the end of the world and it doesn’t mean that this system sucks.
Its main role is to intercept missiles, bombs, drones etc.

Its funny though that those who mock the Pantsir(mainly the Turks and their jihadist supporters) failed to mention the many dozens of drones that Panstir’s have destroyed both in Syria and Libya, mainly turkish made, so in other words, Pantsir did its job.

But its not the miracle weapon made from God Himself that can do everything, there are no weapons in existence like that and will never be in our history no matter how advance our civilization will become.

But how effective a system can be it depends to some factors like:

1) How its been used, like every other air defence system in the world, it works better how its part of integrate air defence network, of course it can used as stand-alone but you handicap a lot its fully potential, networking provide a more clear picture, way longer range that will give you time to activate it, to prepare or even change position if you think that you are going to be overrun.
In the case of Libya that did not happen and still doesn’t happen, they spread way too far the Pantsirs from each other try to cover huge areas without proper intel of enemies movement. A single system eventually will be overrun if you let it alone, it might shoot down a couple of drones and missiles but in the end it will get saturated.

2) Training is a big part of how well a system will perform, especially in this modern era with the sophisticated electronics, and training to operate advance systems is taking a lot of time, months at least to become sufficient, I highly doubt those GNA guys knew what they were doing.

3) I’m pretty sure that the number of destroyed Pantsirs the GNA and Turks claim are a propaganda number, Turks used to add 3-4 times more than the original number, the same propaganda they said about Syria which Turkey claimed destroying 8 Pantsirs when there were no more than 4 in the area which only 2 of them were damaged but not destroyed. The same of course can be said for the amount of drones the LNA has downed, I want to be fair.
Also from what I understand the majority of Pantsirs that got destroyed were in transit or offline or generally speaking were destroyed by ground troops rather than air attacks.
That is the bad use as we talk about earlier because the poor trained troops used it as pickups walking around in hot areas with no sufficient support to protect it.

4) And last those Pantsirs which owned by UAE, are the first version of the Pantsir which UAE took delivery in early-mid 2000s. There were many reports about that version to have problems to track very small targets like UAVs, since then the problem has been solved, there are numerous upgrades better than the UAE version, the largest and most effective upgrades though happened during the Syrian war because Russia had the chance to test it in real warfare conditions in which successfully managed to counter hundreds upon hundreds of missiles, bombs and drones thus improving it with every encounter. Just only look how the Russian Khmeimim base in Syria has successfully intercept everything so far, from small rockets, larger rockets, drones, even tiny plastic drones which are very hard to detect and that success happened because Russian Pantsirs are integrated in a unify network.

The most advance is Pantsir-S2 and even better the Pantsir-SM, this versions are day and night with the UAE first generation version Pantsir, just a reminder the Pantsir versions are the S1(which UAE has), S1M, S2 and SM but also within each version different adjustments were made to improve performance without the need to change the name version.

What I want to say, the Pantsir together with the Tor-M2(there are reports that performed better) are one of the best in their role, if not the best, with Iron-Dome coming next but still far.
I cant think any other air defence system in the world that has better tested in real life war scenarios than Pantsir/Tor/Buk and Iron-Dome, especially in that specifically role of intercepting cruise missiles, smart bombs and drones, especially small drones and bombs which are very hard to detect and engage.
Its very very hard to make a good system against those threats and Russians seem to managed that during the last years especially with all their experience they gathered and to be fair the Israelis too with the hundreds of rockets they been fired upon them.

So people think before you start writing BS.