🚨🇺🇸🇻🇪 This is how the U.S. bypassed Venezuela's F-16 fleet, Iranian, Russian, and Chinese air defense and radar networks during the operation. pic.twitter.com/Jhx6fQCAJp
A Strategic Betrayal: How Venezuela Exposed Russian & Chinese Air Defenses to the US
Article By Major Sammer Toorr (Infantry Combat Veteran)
(Urban Warfare Specialist)
This is bigger than Venezuela. Russian S-300 and Chinese HQ-9 air defense systems are now exposed not destroyed but decoded. That’s worse. Air defense isn’t metal and missiles. It’s radar logic, response time, software behavior, and operator doctrine. Once mapped, it’s neutralized everywhere.
戰略背叛：委內瑞拉如何將俄羅斯和中國的防空系統暴露給美國
作者：薩默·圖爾少校（步兵戰鬥老兵）（城市作戰專家）
這遠不止委內瑞拉的問題。俄羅斯的 S-300 和中國的
紅旗 HQ-9 防空系統如今不僅沒有被摧毀，
反而被解碼了。這更糟糕。
防空系統並非僅僅是金屬和導彈，而是雷達邏輯、響應時間、軟件
行為和操作人員的作戰理論。一旦掌握了這些系統，它們就能在
任何地方被摧毀。美軍需要的不是戰鬥，而是情報、監視和偵察
（ISR）飛行、電子戰探測、網絡測繪和無人機模擬。
委內瑞拉給了他們這些機會。S-300的神話建立在恐懼之上。但
一旦其雷達頻率、交戰窗口和跟蹤範圍被記錄下來，地球上的
每一套S-300系統都將變得可預測。HQ-9的說法則更加脆弱。它被
宣傳為中國的“愛國者”導彈殺手，但其在現實世界中的暴露將導致
其在亞洲、非洲和中東的出口崩潰和信譽受損。
五角大樓不會倉促行事。它負責觀察、記錄、模擬並編寫反制
戰術，然後將這些信息共享給北約和印太司令部。這就是莫斯科
和北京感到被欺騙的原因。他們付出了武器、訓練、石油交易、
外交庇護和否決權，卻換來了戰略泄露。
委內瑞拉原本不應該成為美國的試驗場，而應該成為一個施壓點。
馬杜羅選擇了政權存亡而非戰略忠誠。現在，俄羅斯面臨着一場
噩夢：任何未來與S-300的交戰都可能被美國的算法預先破解。
中國的擔憂則更為深遠。如果HQ-9的性能缺陷暴露出來，巴基
斯坦、伊朗和出口客戶將會提出一些棘手的問題。這就是現代
戰爭的殘酷法則：你無法通過轟炸來擊敗防空系統，而是要通過
了解它來擊敗它。
委內瑞拉或許能夠挺過制裁，但俄羅斯和中國可能
剛剛失去了價值數十年的威懾力量，
而這甚至沒有發射過一枚導彈。
US forces don’t need combat. They need access ISR flights, EW probing, cyber mapping, drone stimulation. Venezuela gave them that access. The S-300 myth was built on fear. But once its radar frequencies, engagement windows, and tracking limits are recorded, every S-300 battery on Earth becomes predictable. The HQ-9 narrative is even more fragile. Marketed as China’s Patriot-killer, its real-world exposure risks export collapse and credibility loss across Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. The Pentagon doesn’t rush. It observes, records, simulates, and writes counter-tactics then shares them across NATO and Indo-Pacific commands. This is why Moscow and Beijing feel cheated. They paid in weapons, training, oil deals, diplomatic shielding, and vetoes and got strategic leakage in return. Venezuela wasn’t supposed to be a US lab. It was meant to be a pressure point. Maduro chose regime survival over strategic loyalty.
Now Russia faces a nightmare: Any future S-300 engagement risks being pre-solved by US algorithms. China’s worry is deeper. If HQ-9 performance gaps are exposed, Pakistan, Iran, and export clients start asking uncomfortable questions. This is modern warfare’s harsh rule: You don’t defeat air defenses by bombing them. You defeat them by understanding them. Venezuela may survive sanctions. But Russia and China may have just lost deterrence capital worth decades without a single missile fired.
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