It was going to happen sooner or later but I think we can all celebrate what those Patriot systems accomplished in their time in Ukraine. They’ve proven how valuable Patriot AA are in the fight so now it’s time to get the numbers up over there and send more.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I've red patriot is a "billion dollar system". Losing these hurts a lot. I don't know if Germany has a lot of these launchers. The mobile launchers are from Germany I believe.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Patriot is billion dollar system, but that's entire system with the destroyed launcher being the cheaper part. (IIRC there are 6 launchers in single system)

The main issue is that there's limited amount of the mobile launchers available as Patriot was built primarily as static AA defense.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It is the launcher, that is the cheapest part of the system. The expensive parts are the command center and the radars.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If the launcher is not moving in the video, stay sus. Ukraine has a lot of himars/patriot mockups to lure these strikes in👍

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Sloppy? It is war, shit unfortunately happens.

Many explanations why, but the Ukranians knew the risks and this is what they ended up doing with the equipment. No use armchair generating this. We all share the disappointment of the loss, in crew and also the equipment.

And probably the Russians had Iskanders on standby just for this hunt, it not only cost them planes, but also serious time and material for the hunt and kill.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Im just going to point out the difference in explosive amounts. Russians used a iskander, those are really big missiles.