For the first time in the world, Russians lost a rare S-350 Vityaz launcher due to a mine explosion
Moreover, here we are talking about a complex manufactured literally in single quantities
Footage has appeared in the public domain, showing that Russian invaders in the temporarily occupied part of Luhansk region lost a launcher for a rare S-350 Vityaz air defense system due to a mine explosion. It is not yet known under what conditions and when this episode occurred, but it is clear that the anti-aircraft missiles on the launchers did not detonate.
The fact that a launcher from an air defense system was detonated on a mine in the rear area looks unusual, and there are no references to such cases in the public domain. Therefore, it turns out that the Russian occupiers became the first in the world to lose a launcher for an anti-aircraft missile system due to a mine explosion. Moreover, we are talking about a very rare example of racist weapons.
The Russian S-350 Vityaz air defense system was adopted only in 2020, and according to open sources, in 2022 the Russian army had only six launchers of this complex.
During the full-scale invasion, there were only four episodes in which the rashist S-350 Vityaz was “spotted”: First, in August 2022, this complex was spotted at the Taganrog airfield where Su-25SM3s were based; in June 2023, the Russians deployed this SAM to cover the SPIEF in St. Petersburg; and in December 2023, the first loss of a Russian S-350 was recorded as a result of a hit by a National Guard FPV drone near the front line; and the episode with the mine explosion.
The following characteristics of the Russian S-350 are publicly available: the range of destruction of aerodynamic targets is up to 60 kilometers, the range of destruction of ballistic targets is up to 20 kilometers, the complex is capable of simultaneously firing up to 8 targets, the number of anti-aircraft missiles per launcher is 12.
The Rashists also claim that the C-350 is allegedly capable of operating “in automatic mode” due to its high level of digitalization. The cost of this complex is not specified in open sources.
