Doctoral Research Fellow at the Oslo Nuclear Project, University of Oslo. Defense policy, missile technology, and nuclear strategy.
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Fabian Hoffmann
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Lacking Ukraine's technological and operational ingenuity, Russia is struggling to counter long-range drone swarms growing in size and intensity.
As missiles and long-range drones proliferate, this imbalance will increasingly define inter-state competition.
5/5
By April this year, Russian military bloggers reported severe shortages specific to the Pantsir system, with similar concerns now emerging around S-300 and S-400 stocks.
This compounds the issues related to an already thinning air defense network.
3/5
Russia is now facing the same structural disadvantage that defines modern missile warfare: legacy interceptors cost more and are harder to produce than the systems they counter.
4/5
