Comment by lukan
5 days ago
What technology prevents a american helicopter from being shot down by a russian anti aircraft missile?
The open question is rather, if the S-500 system can beat the F35 stealth capabilities (nobody know that as far as I know as it was never tried). Not that russians systems are useless against ordinary planes and helicopters.
How do you think operations like these are executed? One helicopter just enters Venezuelan air space and hopes for the best?
I believe there were many deals. With the russians to not interfer and send capable anti aircraft systems in the last months.
And I suspect there were deals with parts of the venezuelan military as well. The weak reaction indicates as much.
And everything else potentially dangerous, active radar and anti air systems were destroyed in the first wave of attacks. Possible with the help of special forces.
You prevent enemy air defenses from shooting down your aircraft by blowing them up as part of SEAD/DEAD missions, which is exactly what the US did.