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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.
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 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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.