Not a Russian hit. An interceptor malfunctioned, crashed not far from the launcher.
Posted on 05/16/2023 7:01:41 AM PDT by SpeedyInTexas
Kazan is the name of a city in RuZZia.
Is that where you live?
“A Patriot system was likely damaged but not destroyed by a Russian missile barrage Monday night, a US official tells @NatashaBertrand . US is still assessing the damage which to determine whether the system needs to be pulled back entirely or be repaired by the Ukrainians.”
https://twitter.com/MarquardtA/status/1658508441134981120
“’That is an wild exaggeration. Some debris fell on one launch site (and all over the neighborhood), no damage to the launchers themselves.”
https://twitter.com/noclador/status/1658524311047503884
“Seems like the target was the battery itself.”
https://twitter.com/csm231_/status/1658263563914362880
“Drones of the Ukrainian 44th Artillery Brigade detected 3 Russian 2S5 Giatsint-S SPGs.
The Ukrainian fire hit the SPG in the middle, causing a huge explosion and shockwave. The explosion torched the SPG on the right and destroyed it.”
https://twitter.com/Tendar/status/1658444253268246529
Daily Beast article:
Humiliation for Putin’s ‘Unstoppable’ Superweapons Blasted Out of Sky by U.S. Defense System
https://www.thedailybeast.com/humiliation-for-putins-unstoppable-superweapon-blasted-out-of-sky-by-us-defense-system?ref=author
This is what I believe.
I also believe that this could be a false flag in an attempt to get russia to fire more kinzhal missiles.
“Kyiv has been silent on this today. We were given firm denials in the morning. “No comment” in the afternoon and this evening. Plenty of ignored calls and texts.”
https://twitter.com/ChristopherJM/status/1658523223347036191
Possibly, but based on the all too convenient cropping of the pic, I’d say the closer smoke trail is from an outbound missile several seconds earlier, and the 2 trails just happened to intersect. The trail in the foreground is starting to break up, while the distant one is newer and still straight. Seeing the uncropped image would tell the story. Better yet, this is captured from video, so where’s the video?
This link contains some short clips of video showing the same area. It shows the falling debris is coming from much higher altitude. I’m assuming the park area is the zoo, where it was reported debris landed.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/16/europe/kyiv-russian-missile-attack-intl-hnk/index.html
“Ukraine Says It Shot Down Hypersonic Russian Missiles Over Kyiv”
“A Russian barrage also damaged a U.S.-made Patriot air-defense system, but officials said it was still working.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/16/world/europe/ukraine-russia-hypersonic-kinzhal-patriot.html
I’ll post the archive version after I run a quick errand.
Damaged but still functional.
“Ukraine’s air defense shot down six of the most sophisticated conventional weapons in Russia’s arsenal, hypersonic Kinzhal missiles, according to Ukrainian and American officials, during a barrage of missiles and drones aimed at Kyiv, the capital, on Tuesday.
Russia’s Defense Ministry said at least one Kinzhal had hit an American-made Patriot system, the most advanced U.S. ground-based air-defense system, which Washington had delivered to Ukraine after its urgent requests to help defend against an onslaught of Russian missile and drone attacks.
A statement from Ukraine’s Air Force did not specify whether the Patriot system had, in fact, been involved in shooting down Russian missiles in one of the largest aerial assaults by Moscow since early March. But two U.S. officials confirmed that a Patriot had been damaged, not destroyed, in the attack overnight Tuesday, an assessment initially reported by CNN. And one of the Americans confirmed that Ukraine had downed six Kinzhal missiles.
After an evaluation of the damage to the Patriot to determine whether parts of the system needed to be replaced or could be repaired, the initial conclusion was that the system, which was stationed in an airfield, was still operational against all threats — including hypersonic missiles — the American officials said.”
@visegrad24 7h
Le Monde reports that the UK and the Netherlands have agreed to create a coalition to purchase fighter jets for Ukraine after a meeting between PM Rishi Sunak and his Dutch counterpart Mark Rutte.
Belgium is also willing to start training Ukrainian pilots.
Is oryx site down?
It was down for 24 hours.
Back up this morning.
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