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Ukraine is stepping up its drone war against Russia, and now it's Moscow turn to reassemble decades-old air-defense weapons
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Desperate to stop Ukrainian drone strikes on Moscow and other targets inside Russia, Russian air-defense forces are resurrecting a World War II-era system: towers with guns.
These “flakturme” were huge concrete structures up to 230 feet — or 21 stories — high and studded with anti-aircraft guns to protect German cities from Allied bombers.
Pantsirs have already been deployed atop government buildings in Moscow, but the new structures appear to be purpose-built for anti-aircraft batteries.
While the targets have been mostly in western Russia near the Ukrainian border, attacks have ranged as far as St. Petersburg, with more than a dozen strikes on Moscow.
The physical impact of these Ukrainian attacks includes the destruction of a few Russian aircraft as well as damaging buildings and industrial sites, such as oil refineries.
Higher elevation should extend the detection range and field of fire of the Pantsir, a three-vehicle system that includes radar, medium-range surface-to-air missiles, and twin 30-mm anti-aircraft guns.
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