A Patriot battery cannot be concealed or camouflaged. It’s right out in the open, a statement of missile defense superiority daring enemies to test it.
Soon, it may be tested, and not by single ancient SCUDs vs multiple Patriot missiles, as in Desert Storm.
If any of that were true, HIMARS systems would not exist in Ukraine. Russia has claimed to have destroyed most or all of them, but in fact I am not sure if even one HIMAR has been struck.
Patriot systems, can, however, be moved.
The system is not a bit worse in re concealability or mobility than S300, which the Ukrainians have been using all this time.
Hopefully, the current Patriot system will perform better than it did in Desert Storm. Its performance then was an unmitigated disaster that was hidden from the public.
—> daring enemies to test it.
Drones tested it well in Saudi Arabia …
They had better stay out of artillery range, too.