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Tell this to Israeli army which successfully uses their Merkavas in Palestine. ...
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Against an irregular army using light weaponry ... Falls into "paramilitary" use ...
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Hint: he had no modern air defense systems. This is why Israel said their air forces will be useless against Iran if Russia will sell S-300 to Hassan Rouhani.
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A few Neutron ballistic missiles. (Do the the Israelis have a few on hand?)
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Now think about SA-21 Growler which can intercept a flying target that moves with a speed of Mach 14 (about 17,000 km/h) and covers up to 400 km range with up to 56 km altitude. Stealth technology is not a problem for that system as well (it was initially designed to intercept aircrafts with a stealth system)  |
You do realize the USAF has hundreds of stealth aircraft and could send a lot of aircraft -- some would get through -- it only takes one with the right ''payload''. The Japanese used the same tactic in WW2 and a lot of Nip Zeros crashed into US warships.
Instead of spending Russia's remaining wealth on weapons systems until the Russian people stand in line to get rations of sawdust to eat -- remember what happened to the Soviet Union. The only reason that I can think of why Russia would need such substantial defense capabilities would be to resist NATO retaliation for invading some second rate Eastern European county ... If that is what the Putin government has in mind -- I would be digging a deep hole to hide in.