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Vladimir Putin had threatened to ‘weed out’ the US-supplied anti-missile defence system Russia-Ukraine war – live: Putin’s Kyiv strikes ‘damaged US Patriot system’ Skip to main content
For Ukraine, the Patriot is "the most-capable, longest-range air defense system they have," Justin Bronk, a leading airpower expert at the UK's Royal United Services Institute, told Business Insider.
The Patriot system has four major operational functions: communications, command and control, radar surveillance, and missile guidance. The four functions combine to provide a coordinated, secure, integrated, mobile air defense system. The Patriot system is modular and highly mobile. A battery-sized element can be installed in less than an hour ...
According to Ukrainian Air Force spokesperson Yurii Ihnat, 6 Kinzhal missiles were used from an estimated Russian reserve of about 50, which was regarded as "a relatively big number" [24] (that is 12%). One of the three MIM-104 Patriot air defense systems provided by the United States to Ukraine was damaged during the attack according to U.S ...
A Ukrainian defense initiative is making steel armor plates to wrap around the control unit of the Patriot battery. Ukraine is giving its US-made Patriot systems steel armor to protect them from ...
The New York Times reported on 8 February that, according to anonymous US officials, the Il-76 was shot down by an American Patriot missile operated by Ukraine, and that claims that there were Ukrainian POWs on board were "probable".
On 8 July the Russian defence ministry stated that "in response to attempts by the Kyiv regime to damage Russian energy and economic facilities", Russian forces had carried out strikes on defence industry targets and aviation bases in Ukraine, [35] claiming that damage to civilian infrastructure was done by a falling Ukrainian air defense ...
Ukraine has previously exhibited cheap decoys built to look like multi-million dollar western air defence and missile systems for which Moscow is hunting in Ukraine. The Patriot system, which has ...