Posted on 08/02/2024 7:02:27 AM PDT by hardspunned
The Russian Defense Ministry has claimed it destroyed several U.S.-made Patriot air defense system launchers in one day amid the ongoing invasion of Ukraine.
Russian forces hit three launchers of the U.S. Patriot air defense system on Thursday, 1 August, according to a statement from the Defense Ministry.
Russia used a combination of drones, artillery, and ground troops to target the Patriot anti-aircraft missile system.
Moscow also claimed to have shot down 14 rocket launchers manufactured by the United States and one MGM-140 Army Tactical Missile System.
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In a similar vein the NATO provided advanced tanks were supposed to be a game changer, but not hearing anything about tanks now.
Why does Z “claim” to always need more Patriots? How many have we sent? They are either complete, abysmal failures or the boom boom fairies made them all go away. Again, how many have been sent? How many are functional today? Please, how many Western news reports of Ukrainian air defense successes this entire year can you produce? We have sent a good portion of the world’s supply of Patriots to Ukraine. Since May they have have been completely ineffective. Stop making silly western hope porn claims. Not LOL, just shaking my head at your MSM stoogery.
OK, you explain to all of us why Russia can’t defeat Ukraine
(not really expecting an answer, you Putin-bots never do)
“”””””July was the month in which the West realized they had lost the war against Russia. Now the West is looking for the next conflict. On to Iran! On to China!””””””
Would a conflict with Iran or China also mean “the West” not actually being in a war and fighting anyone but merely joining Israel’s and Taiwan’s ally’s and friends with helping to supply them with material goods?
Man, get your head out the media masters’ feeding trough. The Russians ARE winning NATO’s unprovoked proxy war against them in a big way. Hey, where are your wonder weapon ATACMS?
The FAB attacks are all at or very close to the front line.
That is the same as all the Russian close support activity we have seen during the whole war. The only difference is a bigger bomb. Russian aircraft are not flying interdiction or strategic attacks into the Ukrainian rear, with FAB or anything else.
The Russian tactic with FAB, I believe, is a low altitude approach, minimizing the effective range of missile systems, a pitch-up to release the bomb, well beyond the Uke lines, and a rapid return at low altitude to give the minimum window to Uke SAM systems.
Patriots are mainly used to intercept cruise missiles.
As the Russians shoot those at Ukraine Patriot missiles are used up intercepting them. The same dynamic as when the Ukrainians were using their S300’s for this purpose, until Ukraine ran out of S300s.
Its a steady tradeoff of missiles vs missiles.
Apparently there was an ATACMs hit on an S400 system near Sebastopol yesterday. This has become an almost daily occurence.
Ukraine seems to be concentrating on destroying Russian air defenses based in Kherson, Crimea and the Donbas.
To what purpose remains to be seen.
Ukraine is not allowed to use ATACMS on Russian territory.
Russia has claimed to have destroyed more Patriots and HIMAARS systems than Ukraine was promised to recieve. YOur beloved KGB government lies. And Russia invaded Ukraine in an unprovoked war, comrade.
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