Ukraine Knocks Out Two Russian Pantsir-S1 Air Defense Systems in Back-to-Back Strikes

Ukrainian forces destroyed two Russian Pantsir-S1 short-range air defense systems in separate strikes in temporarily occupied Crimea and Russia’s Krasnodar region.

The first Pantsir-S1 was destroyed near the temporarily occupied city of Kerch on August 29, while the second was hit a day later near a military airfield in Yeysk, Krasnodar region, according to the open-source channel Dossier Shpiona, which published images showing the destroyed systems.

OSINT project CyberBoroshno reported that Russian forces had positioned a decoy near the Pantsir-S1 in Yeysk. The presence of the decoy did not prevent the operational system from being identified and struck.

The Pantsir-S1 is a Russian self-propelled short-range surface-to-air missile and anti-aircraft artillery system designed to protect military and other critical facilities against aircraft, cruise missiles, and drones.

The system combines two twin-barrel 30 mm 2A38M automatic cannons with up to 12 surface-to-air missiles. Its cannons can engage targets at ranges of up to approximately 4 kilometers (2.5 miles), while its missiles can reach targets at distances of up to 20 kilometers (12.4 miles) and altitudes of up to 15 kilometers (9.3 miles).

Earlier, Ukrainian forces struck multiple Russian military targets, including a radar station and an S-400 command vehicle in the Bryansk region, a communications hub in Belgorod, a drone command post near Huliaipole, and logistics depots in temporarily occupied Crimea, Luhansk region, and Russia’s Kursk region, Ukraine’s General Staff reported on August 31.

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