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US seizes advanced Russian military system in Libya

By Tom Rogan
Published June 19, 2020 12:57pm ET
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US seizes advanced Russian military system in Libya
After initially hoping that Trump's inauguration would produce a raft of policy concessions to Russia, Putin's team talked down the prospects of a meeting and routinely accused the United States of making aggressive efforts to maintain global hegemony. (Mikhail Klimentyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP) | Mikhail Klimentyev

In early June, U.S. military personnel secured an advanced Russian combat system in Libya.

The exact identity of the platform, now extracted out of Libya and subject to U.S. technical analysis, is unknown to me. But I am led to believe it is either the Krasukha-4 electronic warfare system or the S-350 medium-range air defense system. Both reflect higher-end Russian military capabilities, primarily designed to defeat NATO air operations. Such systems have taken on added value in Libya of late due to the success of Turkish drones in targeting older Russian air defense systems such as the Pantsir, which the U.S. military has already had analytical access to.

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