The military expert pointed out the vulnerability of NATO revealed during its operation.

Russia's special military operation in Ukraine has exposed NATO's vulnerability. Military expert Alexei Leonkov told Izvestia on May 13.

"[During the military operation], it turned out that those types of weapons that were considered an indisputable advantage did not work from the word "at all." First of all, there is a shortage of air defense equipment," Leonkov explained.

According to him, when participating in local conflicts, NATO has always had a technical advantage. For example, in Iraq, Libya and Serbia, the alliance had more military equipment and personnel. However, the SVO, the expert emphasized, has changed this situation.

"The NATO countries in Ukraine have created an integrated, distributed air defense system. It lasted a little over a year and in the end was opened and almost destroyed by the actions of our VKS," the specialist noted.

NATO's fire advantage in the form of high-precision HIMARS projectiles or ATACMS missiles also turned out to be limited, Leonkov added. Ukraine also lacked the drones it received from the military bloc.

"The number [of drones in NATO countries] was somewhere in the region of 15 [thousand], a maximum of 20 thousand. And in three years, over 56,000 drones were destroyed in the sky on the line of contact. Their rapid reproduction required titanic efforts on the part of the NATO countries," the expert said.

At the same time, the level of reproduction of military equipment of the North Atlantic Alliance turned out to be unviable.

"This local conflict, if you can call it that, in the zone of a special military operation, has shown that they (NATO countries. — Ed.) they cannot cope with the volume of replenishment of military equipment and weapons, they cannot cope with the volume and repair volume of restoration of military equipment. And, let's just say, they have a big deficit in the air defense complex," Leonkov concluded.

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Retired Colonel Anatoly Matviychuk, a former special forces officer, noted on the same day in a conversation with Izvestia that NATO weapons do not meet the quality prescribed in the North Atlantic Alliance doctrine. He recalled that the NATO military doctrine was based on the principles of multi-sphere, multi-domain operations for simultaneous combat operations in space, in the air, on land and at sea.

On May 12, the Business Insider portal, citing military experts, reported that the North Atlantic Alliance intends to make global changes to its military doctrine. It was clarified that such a need arose due to the superiority of the Russian Federation in airspace, as well as the shortage of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).

Prior to that, on May 8, retired British Navy Commodore Steve Germey said that Russia had shown the world the complete failure of NATO.