Posted on 01/13/2023 2:21:31 PM PST by Tench_Coxe
About 100 Ukrainian troops will head to Oklahoma's Fort Sill as soon as next week to begin training on the Patriot missile defense system, the Pentagon announced Tuesday.
Ukraine has long sought the Patriot surface-to-air guided missile defense system because it can target aircraft, cruise missiles and shorter-range ballistic missiles. During his late December visit to the U.S., Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the battery would make a significant difference in bolstering Kyiv's defenses against Russia's invasion.
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Now what could possibly go wrong?
Interesting, considering the talk that the Ukraine was a Satanic worshipper’s stronghold and full of lizards. So are we bringing the lizards or the resisters? Inquiring minds....
That’s where they train all operators / maintenance . Patriot is owned by many countries.
“That’s where they train all operators / maintenance . Patriot is owned by many countries.”
Yup.
And how often were those being trained in the middle of hostilities?
I wonder if our black helicopter posters will react.
I worked with a fellow who was in Gulf War 1 and worked on Patriots.
He said they would get new software on a “five and a quarter inch floppy” to load pretty much every day. I imagine by now it’s wireless.
Nothing. Ukrainian troops have been trained in the US before.
The US army base training Ukrainian fighters
Senior-level Ukrainian officers have been studying in the US state of Kansas, thousands of miles from Russia's invasion and the battlefields of Donbas.
This quintessentially Kansas landscape has become the backdrop for generations of international soldiers, who head to the US base to receive strategic training.
Pentagon spokesman John Kirby says the same: "That part of Ukraine is a bit like Kansas, so it's a little bit flatter, it's a little bit more open," he told media during a press briefing.
Fort Leavenworth has proved to be a valuable training ground for dozens of Ukrainian soldiers over the past several decades, who spend a year studying at the base's US Army Command and General Staff College.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-62001336
Lucky them.
They’ll be in the USA when their country collapses.
The Russians are very familiar with this sort of thing and much more.
I don’t know. Ft Sill is kind of boring. People go out get drunk and can be pretty hostile.
Methinks it would be a good idea if the U.S. try to broker at least a ceasefire don’t you think?
Maybe 72 hrs in place?
Has anyone tried to broker a ceasefire?
No?
I know why, too much money.
5.56mm
Negotiate? Putin believes Ukraine is an artificial construct that should not exist as an independent state.
A version 6 iPhone probably has more computing power than a Gulf War 1 Patriot system.
I imagine by now it’s wireless.
I would bet that today's Patriot system has secure SATCOM with any/all NATO Surface-to-Air Defense systems.
He said they would get new software on a “five and a quarter inch floppy”
= = =
That language would NOT be permissible in today’s Woke military.
My guess would be raid drives.
I was a Patriot and Air Defense Artillery Officer. One battery can barely defend Kiev, not a chance anything bigger.
Ft. Silly. Oh boy.
Pullski Lanyardski. BOOM!
99 will slip out of camp and thank god they are free of Zelensky.
It will become the #1 sought after posting in the Ukraine.
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