Comments by "M gronich" (@mgronich948) on "Russia claims it hit a US-made Patriot air defense system" video.

  1. Ukraine claims it intercepted all 18 missiles. Let's say the truth is it intercepted none of them, and the Patriot system was mostly destroyed. The Patriot battery is a 1 billion dollar system. Even the US can't afford to send 100 of these to Ukraine. Also the system is extremely complex to operate. Likely the high tech operations were US military personell who volunteered for this. How many of them were killed, wounded? The Patriot system was never designed to intercept hypersonic missiles. Once the Patriot's radar system is destroyed, the slower cruise missiles will get through as well. A Patriot system has 1 control station, 1 advanced radar, and up to 8 launchers with 4 missiles each. If the Russians took out the radar and command/control station first, they can leisurely pick off the 8 missile launchers with sub-sonic cruise missiles. This is called a saturation attack. The patriot is good but every system can be overwhelmed in a saturation attack.
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