Posted on 03/27/2024 5:52:44 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Ukraine has doubled down on demands for U.S.-made Patriot air defense systems, pressing for vital, sophisticated assets to shield its cities at a moment of deepening concern over the future of military aid destined for Ukraine.
"Give us the damn Patriots," Kyiv's foreign minister, Dmytro Kuleba, told Politico in an interview published on Monday.
Ukraine is thought to have a handful of Patriot batteries, considered the gold-standard of air defenses. The exact number and locations are not known, but Ukraine is believed to have batteries stationed around major cities, like Kyiv, as well as close to the front lines.
According to Ukraine's military, Kyiv has used its Patriots to take out a slew of Russian aircraft, and the systems were credited with intercepting a number of Russia's supposedly unstoppable Kinzhal missiles, which the Kremlin has describes as hypersonic weapons.
The Raytheon-designed Patriot is a surface-to-air system designed to shoot down ballistic and cruise missiles, as well as aircraft and drones, from long distances. It is considered one of the U.S. military's most advanced air defense systems and Patriots are also stationed on NATO's eastern flank, close to the conflict in Ukraine.
The Kremlin claimed last week that it had destroyed five Patriot launchers since the start of 2024. Each Patriot battery has several launchers that contain and fire missiles. Reports had suggested earlier in March that a Russian missile strike took out two Patriot launchers traveling with a Ukrainian convoy.
Ukraine has been unwavering in its calls for more air defense systems to fend off frequent, hammering Russian missile strikes. In the early hours of Friday, Russia launched 151 strikes—using ballistic and cruise missiles, as well as strike drones— across Ukraine, according to Kyiv's air force.
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No
How about you come and take them, buttplug.
Uh, nope.
Give?
Cheeky little bastard, ain’t he.
L
Better yet, work out a peace deal. We are broke.
“”Give us the damn Patriots,” Kyiv’s foreign minister, Dmytro Kuleba, told Politico in an interview published on Monday.”
They have PLENTY of NATO ‘Patriots’ - the problem is that half of them get killed, like the Polish general just yesterday. Of course they claim it was a ‘training accident’ or something similar, but he was simply in the wrong place, at the wrong time.
Uppity.
No patriots for you.
You should start a Go Fund Me fundraising page so the Ukies can buy them.
What the hell for? They’re getting them blown up two a day! Give them every Patriot in the world and they might last a month.
“You tellin’ or axin’?”
“How about we flip you the ******* bird? With both hands?”
Don’t they have Patriots already???
Current Patriot production is 550 individual missiles per year.
They are “surging” production to 650 per year. (at a cost of $750 million)
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what a set of huevos on this one!
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