Exclusive: US finalizing plans to send Patriot missile defense system to Ukraine

CNN ^ | 13-DEC-2022 | Barbara Starr

[hanamizu]

No & why should I waste my time watching a video using a false premise: missiles.

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Your time and your choice, of course. But Mark Felton’s YouTubes are usually very interesting. He tends to specialize in little known historical incidents, especially regarding WWII—stuff like what happened to all of Goering’s medals. He surrendered wearing them, but by the time of his trial, they just sort of disappeared. Another regards the death of Himmler while in British custody. If you like history, you might enjoy them.

[Paul R.]

Abrams probably don’t make sense. Korean K21-105’s might, tho’.

[Paul R.]

Light attack trainer craft would decimate those An-2’s in a hurry.

For example: https://www.airforce-technology.com/projects/super_tucano/

or the S. Korean KA-1:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KAI_KT-1_Woongbi

[PIF]

No.

[Kazan]

https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/12/us-to-send-more-wunderwaffen-to-ukraine.html#more

Will the Patriot radar move during the Russian reaction time interval between reconnaissance and strike? I have my doubts.

Wikipedia says that a Patriot battery costs about $1 billion. The radar is the thing that makes these so expensive. Each of its missile costs about $3 million. The suicide drones are maybe $10,000 each. Now do the math ...

The most modern missiles Patriot system use have a maximum reach of some 60 kilometer (37 miles). One battery can thus cover a bubble with a 120 kilometer diameter. It may be good for Kiev or Odessa but is nothing that will solve the general military problem Ukraine has.

The Russian forces are superior in technology, personnel and fire power. There is no chance, and never has been, for Ukraine to win that match. No Wunderwaffen, British marines with sea drones or U.S. Patriot systems, will change those basic facts.