Ukraine has squeezed out of the US Patriot missile system a capability that the Pentagon did not think possible, military analyst says

Yahoo ^ | may 27 2023 | Alia Shoaib

[DUMBGRUNT]

The Patriot is the main air defense system that the US has in its arsenal, with the capability to track 100 targets from 60 miles away.

Last week, Fabian Hoffmann, a doctoral research fellow at the Oslo Nuclear Project, told UK's Sky News that after Ukraine recently claimed to have repelled multiple Russian hypersonic Kinzhal missiles, Russia has "never looked weaker."

"This is a truly remarkable development," he said

Hoffmann added, in a tweet, "The fact that Ukraine was able to defend this attack is amazing, in my opinion, whether the final interception rate is 90% or 100%."

[ansel12]

Here is a Patriot post and link to a Uke war Patriot benefits article that you may want to read.

https://freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/4205603/posts?page=377#377

[Midwesterner53]

I was an Air Defense Artillery officer in Germany. We had two Patriot battalions in our brigade but this was in the early days of Patriot, during the gulf war.

[ansel12]

If you like following the topic check out that link, you might be pleased at the progress made over the decades.

[linMcHlp]

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