An ex-Polish S-125 in Ukrainian service.
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On March 27, 1999, a Serbian military S-125 surface-to-air missile battery shot down a U.S. Air Drive F-117 stealth fighter outdoors Belgrade. Twenty-three years later, the S-125 stealth-killer nonetheless is at struggle—in Ukraine.
Photos which have circulated on-line in current weeks depict at the very least one ex-Polish S-125 system making its method from Poland to Ukraine, the place the Ukrainian air pressure undoubtedly plans to deploy it with the intention to shoot down Russian warplanes and missiles.
The ex-Polish S-125 joins ex-Soviet S-125s that already had been in Ukrainian service. The Polish SAM is one in all a dizzying array of air-defense programs that the U.S., Germany, Spain, France and different international locations have pledged to Ukraine since Russia widened its struggle on the nation beginning in February.
The purpose: to assist Kyiv build a wall of missiles and guns round…
