Cassablanca
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Unafananisha S400 ya 2007 na PAC-3 ya miaka 80 sijui 90!!!!! Fananisha S400 na THAAD ya 2008THAAD ya Mmarekani Radar coverage yake ni 600-3000km.
THAAD Radar Ranges (July 17, 2016)
X-band ground-based radar that comes with THAAD can detect, classify and identify threats of incoming missiles "at ranges up to 1,000 km," the USFK said in its yearly magazine titled "Strategic Digest," published jointly by the United Nations Command and the Combined Forces Command.
China has been voicing strong opposition to the THAAD installment, saying that its radar could spy on its military facilities and hurt its security interests.
The maximum radar range unveiled by the USFK could theoretically cover North Korea and some parts of China from the site for the THAAD battery.
S-400 & THAAD
The US-built THAAD is an effective missile defense system whose capabilities of downing ballistic missiles in terms of intercept altitudes and ranges surpass its the rivals. However it is strictly an anti-missile system, which can hit targets only at very high altitudes (minimum 40-50 km) which makes it useless against fighter jets or long range strategic aircraft. THAAD is not an air defense missile like S-400 or Patriot.
“Countries seeking effective defense against aircraft and missiles will have to buy two costly American systems – Patriot and THAAD, while the Russian S-400 can unite their functions. S-400 can also hit difficult ballistic targets at distances up to 60 km, The ability to shoot down the high-speed targets of S-400 almost equals THAAD (around 17 km/hour),” a defense industry source said.
Increasing US aircraft activity in the South China Sea is believed to have forced China to buy the S-400 from Russia; in the process acknowledging that its own home-grown air defense system were not sufficient to counter sophisticated US aircraft such as the F-35 and F-22. China, which is the first international customer to receive the S-400 is scheduled to test fire the system in August or September 2018.
An ace up the sleeve of the 4 S-400 is said to be its ability to detect stealth aircraft such as the F-35 and Chinese J-20 which are characterized by a low radar signature. Exact how effective is this stealth objects detection capability is not known. But suffice to say there is genuine concern among western commentators that the S-400 could covert the F-35 which took some US$396 billion to develop, into a regular 4th generation aircraft effectively negating its tech and price advantage. The same would apply to the Chinese J-20 if the S-400 were to be purchased by India.
Battle of the Air Defense Systems: S-400 Vs Patriot and THAAD