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The MIM-104 Patriot is a mobile interceptor missile surface-to-air missile (SAM) system, the primary such system used by the United States Army and several allied states. It is manufactured by the U.S. defense contractor Raytheon and derives its name from the radar component of the weapon system.
The Russian A-135 anti-ballistic missile system is currently operational only around the city of Moscow, the national capital, and is being augmented to protect major cities in Russia. The A-135 anti-ballistic missile system is a Russian military complex deployed around Moscow to counter enemy missiles targeting the city or its surrounding ...
In April 2007, NATO's European allies called for a NATO missile defense system which would complement the American national missile defense system to protect Europe from missile attacks and NATO's decision-making North Atlantic Council held consultations on missile defense in the first meeting on the topic at such a senior level. [3]
The Patriot is a guided missile system that can target aircraft, cruise missiles and shorter-range ballistic missiles. Each battery consists of a truck-mounted launching system with eight launchers that can hold up to four missile interceptors each, a ground radar, a control station and a generator.
And Romania’s top defense body said late last month that the country would donate a Patriot missile system to neighboring Ukraine. A number of European allies have been reluctant to part with ...
Romania will back Rutte and donate one of its two operational Patriot missile systems to Ukraine on condition that allies replace it with a similar air defence system, Bucharest's Supreme Defence ...
Romania's lower house of parliament approved a draft law on Tuesday greenlighting the donation of a Patriot missile defence system to Ukraine. Romania, a NATO member since 2004, shares a 650-km ...
The main air-defence system in NATO is the MIM-104 Patriot. Others in use are the NASAMS, CAMM, and, in Eastern Europe, the Cold War Soviet 2K12 Kub. THAAD is a system designed to intercept ballistic missiles and is in use in NATO only by the US.