Ukraine's big strike on Crimea shows how its older missiles can take out Russia's most advanced air defenses

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Russian S-400 missile air-defense systems in Red Square during the general rehearsal of the Victory Day parade in Moscow in May 2022.

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Russia's fearsome S-400 air-defense system isn't quite living up to the hype in Ukraine

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S-400 Triumph systems in Moscow's Red Square
S-400 Triumph systems rehearse before the World War II anniversary in Moscow in 2017.

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Israel's strike showed Iran's air defenses were 'woefully unprepared.' Here's what Tehran may do next.

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A Russian-made S-300 missile system drives in front of the officials' stand during a 2019 military parade in Tehran.
A Russian-made S-300 missile system drives in front of the officials' stand during a 2019 military parade in Tehran.

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Turkey may soon put its controversial Russian S-400 air defenses in operation

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Parts of a Russian S-400 missile-defense system are unloaded from a Russian plane at Murted Airport, known as Akinci Air Base, near Ankara, Turkey in 2019.

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Ukraine says it took out prized Russian S-400 launchers with a strike on a base in Crimea

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Russian S-400 Triumph/SA-21 Growler medium-range and long-range surface-to-air missile systems drive during the Victory Day parade at Red Square in Moscow, Russia, May 9, 2015.

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Russia and Ukraine are both beefing up their air defenses ahead of another winter of bombardment

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Ukrainian air-defense systems fire into the sky outside Kyiv on November 25.

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Russia has likely already sacrificed air defense on NATO borders by sending prized S-400s to shore up losses in Ukraine: UK intel

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An S-400 defense system, sent by Russia, at a joint training drill with Belarus in 2022.
An S-400 defense system, sent by Russia, at a joint training drill with Belarus in 2022.

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Ukraine likely destroyed 3 of Russia's prized S-400 missile systems worth $1.5 billion, weakening its air defenses, says UK intel

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Ukraine's attacks on Crimea are hurting sales of Russia's S-400 air defense system, spy chief claims

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The vaunted surface-to-air S-400 "Triumf" missile system cannot safeguard Russia's occupation of the peninsula, Ukraine's spy chief said in a recent interview.

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Ukraine appears to be hunting Russia's formidable S-400 air defense systems in Crimea with modified Neptune anti-ship missiles

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A column of Russian missile S-400 Triumf systems drive along the Garden Ring road towards the Red Square for a rehearsal of the Victory Day military parade, in central Moscow, on April 27, 2023.
A column of Russian missile S-400 Triumf systems drive along the Garden Ring road towards the Red Square for a rehearsal of the Victory Day military parade, in central Moscow, on April 27, 2023.

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