No Integrated Air Defence System (IADS) is, or has ever been, 100% impenetrable.
The true measure of an air defence system is not whether every incoming threat is destroyed, but whether sufficient combat power survives to enable continued operations.
This brief explains why the future measure of IADS effectiveness will lie not only in the number of fighters, radars or missile systems a nation possesses, but in how intelligently, rapidly and economically it employs them across successive waves of diverse threats: https://www.orfonline.org/expert-speak/integrated-air-defence-preserving-combat-power-in-modern-warfare
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Integrated Air Defence: Preserving Combat Power in Modern Warfare
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