Focus like a laser is nothing compared to your concentration to find cover on an incoming.
With a mortar, you have a few seconds from when you hear the tube to hopefully find some cover.
The Patriot system sees them coming in from miles out...
An excellent detailed talk on the Patriot system. The speaker is a former US Army E-7. https://youtu.be/RDJgQErMSdA
1 posted on
05/28/2023 4:11:18 PM PDT by
DUMBGRUNT
To: DUMBGRUNT
To: DUMBGRUNT
I work with a guy at BAE who demonstrated a system to the Army, mounted on a Bradley, that could shoot down an RPG. It did not have to be pointed at the RPG when it was fired. It would have cost more than the Bradley, and would have been the only mission the Bradley could perform, but still, impressive.
To: DUMBGRUNT
Sounds like the Ukrainians re-engineered the Patriot system and now it works far better than the IDIOTS at Raytheon designed it.
...and all done in 2 weeks!!!
Hmmm.
4 posted on
05/28/2023 4:19:39 PM PDT by
BobL
To: DUMBGRUNT
Maybe it’s just that the Kinzhal is not all it was claimed to be.
8 posted on
05/28/2023 4:30:18 PM PDT by
Brooklyn Attitude
(I went to bed on November 3rd 2020 and woke up in 1984.)
To: DUMBGRUNT
Ukraine has squeezed out of the US Patriot missile system a capability that the Pentagon did not think possible, military analyst says
I have two choices here:
1. Ukraine has defied the laws of physics.
2. Ukraine is full of shit.
I'll take door #2.
To: DUMBGRUNT
"Ukraine has squeezed out of the US Patriot missile system a capability that the Pentagon did not think possible, military analyst says"
Patriot anti-ballistic missile. Is this the same kind of ABM system that in the Reagan era demRATs claimed could never work?
18 posted on
05/28/2023 4:53:20 PM PDT by
clearcarbon
(Fraudulent elections have consequences.)
To: DUMBGRUNT
“Ukraine recently claimed”
They claim alot.
20 posted on
05/28/2023 5:03:21 PM PDT by
McGruff
(Don't underestimate Joe's ability to f*** things up - Barack Obama)
To: DUMBGRUNT
21 posted on
05/28/2023 5:03:57 PM PDT by
mylife
(I was a sort of country boy, a cockeyed optimist, wrapped in international intrigue and espionage)
To: DUMBGRUNT
26 posted on
05/28/2023 5:17:16 PM PDT by
popdonnelly
(All the enormous crimes in history have been committed by governments.)
To: DUMBGRUNT
And I have a bridge in Brooklyn I’d like to sell you
To: DUMBGRUNT; BobL; Travis McGee; Right_Wing_Madman; McGruff; mylife; NorseViking; Timber Rattler; ...
Meanwhile, the solution offered by Smiley (l) and Zippy the Pinhead (r) is launching cruise missiles into Soviet era apartment buildings in Kiev. Their intellect is deep.
To: DUMBGRUNT
There are two possible easy explanations:
Patriot is more capable than we thought, or
Kinzhal is less capable than claimed.
Maybe it is a bit of both.
To: DUMBGRUNT
I was a Patriot Army Officer. In my day, we were surprised at how well the missile did vs Scuds. Now this. It is an amazing system.
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