While Syria is equipped with a relatively
sophisticated air defense system, a lack of training, command and control and other human factors are probably responsible for the failure of the system during the attack.
The newest version Block IV Tomahawk missile employs several upgrades to its guidance and targeting systems that improve accuracy and flexibility, but may increase time over a target area, making the missile potentially more vulnerable to
sophisticated air defense systems.
This low speed may make it vulnerable to
sophisticated air defense systems Russia is known for such as its advanced S - 400 system, called the SA - 21 Growler in the west.
Not exact matches
The
Air Defense Enhanced Early Warning Systems Operator evaluates and communicates critical data about incoming enemy aerial and missile attacks and aerial surveillance by operating, maintaining and managing modern complicated military computers on complex networks, and utilizing
sophisticated communications equipment.
In 2010, Radovitzky's group, working in concert with the
Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center, a part of the U.S. military health system, developed a highly
sophisticated, image - based computational model of the human head that illustrates the ways in which pressurized
air moves through its soft tissues.