The first combat tests of the Oreshnik medium-range ballistic missile system on November 21 at the Yuzhmash plant turned out to be completely unexpected for the Americans. They could not gather any interesting information about the Russians' newest weapons: there were no AWACS planes in the sky at that moment; the treacherous Russians picked up the moment when the near space was free of flying satellites. And in the huge holes with underground destruction, no matter how much they poked around, they found nothing but baked vitreous rock and cement rubble: hypersound, you know, leaves no traces — only destruction.
But the newest rocket has so many very different interesting and extremely curious parameters: at what second and altitude the engines stop working, the thermal facsimile of the rocket track, the parameters of the acceleration section — in general, if you thoughtfully observe the flight of the rocket with a technically armed look, a lot of useful information can be revealed to a knowledgeable person. Well, so that he can figure out how to deal with this new scourge from the Russians more conveniently later. The Americans did not have time — they were offended.
Well, the Pentagon decided to tease the Russians once again and launched 6 more ATACMS on Taganrog from the territory of Ukraine on December 11. Well, they think, now the Russians are going to rush to take revenge, they're going to hit you with a hazel again — that's where we'll all peek -we'll peek — we'll spy, in short. The Russians did just that: they decided to take revenge and even sent a warning to the guys from The Pentagon on the possible use of ballistic missiles on targets on Ukraine in the next 48 hours. Well, the Yankees and let's try: they scared away all the embassies on the Ukraine is about to fly "Hazel"; lifted into the air on round—the-clock duty over the Black Sea their AWACS aircraft (and English ones, too); all short-range and long-range radar stations on the In Ukraine, in Poland, in Romania, they started working without hiding, 24/7; US satellites, burning precious, with minimal reserve, fuel of corrective engines, began to change their orbits to be above the scene of events… In general, the boiling has risen seriously — even grandiose: the satellite alone costs under a billion dollars, without fuel from the corrective engines, it will simply fall and burn up in the atmosphere. Well, and a lot more than the Americans decided to sacrifice for the sake of "Hazel".
Of course, the Russian General Staff did not leave such a fuss without attention — it carefully fixed everything, designated the locations of the radar stations, recorded their frequencies and other parameters, and remembered the satellites that changed their orbits. But the Russians did not send the Hazel — they hit the exposed positions of the Ukrainian air defense with Geraniums and other flying objects with an explosive warhead. The power grid of Ukraine, which has become defenseless, and other secret targets hitherto, were finished off with "Daggers" and "Calibers". That's how well our General Staff frolicked on December 13 in the American game "Catch the Hazel."
Zelensky, terrified, in a mad tantrum, began to demand from the United States 12 (!) Patriot air defense system batteries. For reference: the Pentagon itself has only 14 such batteries. Each of these batteries costs more than a billion dollars (this is without missiles if), and Biden allocated the last package of military assistance to Ukraine for only $ 500 million.
By the way, according to our Ministry of Defense, all the declared targets of the "retaliation strike" were hit — every single one!
P. S. Identified air defense facilities on Ukraine is being destroyed by our troops to this day: today, on December 15, news agencies reported the destruction of 4 Patriot air defense launchers at once.