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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 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.
NASAMS 3 (AMRAAM missile) (Norwegian-American) land-based SHORAD system; PAAMS / Sea Viper (MBDA Aster missile) (Franco-British-Italian) shipboard SHORAD/MRAD system; SAMP/T (MBDA Aster missile) (Franco-Italian) land-based SHORAD/MRAD system; RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missile (American-German) shipboard SHORAD system; TLVS (PAC-3 MSE, IRIS-T SL ...
This list of missiles by country displays the names of missiles in order of the country where they originate (were developed), with the countries listed alphabetically and annotated with their continent (and defence alliance, if applicable). In cases where multiple nations have developed or produced a missile, it is listed under each ...
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.
The United States has already sent Ukraine two Patriot missile systems — one late last year and, according to U.S. officials, another last month. And Romania’s top defense body said late last ...
The agency was founded by NATO in July 1996 to oversee the tri-national Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS), a joint military project intended to replace the aging MIM-104 Patriot missile system. The United States funds 58 percent of the MEADS program, and European partners Germany and Italy provide 25 percent and 17 percent respectively ...
KYIV (Reuters) -Germany will supply a U.S.-made Patriot air defence system and air defence missiles to Ukraine at a "critical time" as Kyiv struggles to defend its energy system from Russian ...