“Israel is ‘retiring’ its Patriot missile batteries. They could help a struggling Ukraine.”
Just in time for a war with Iran. Can’t say I’m surprised that the Zeepers are ready to leave Israel DEFENSELESS against Iran, since they never liked Israel much to begin with.
Interesting that SCUD missiles were mentioned. I read a very unconfirmed report that Ukraine discovered twenty SCUD missiles in storage and they are cannibalizing twelve of them to make the remaining eight functional.
If true it would be interesting to see where they’d be used and if the Russians are capable of intercepting 1980’s Soviet tech with 1990’s Soviet tech.
Business Insider propaganda.
Patriots just don’t work very well. Turing this into a Ukrainian “victory” is stupid.
they’d have to be pretty damned poor performers for the IDF to retire them from deployment, especially given the magnitude of the Iranian/Fakestinian terrorist threats
Another possible take on the "messaging." Other air defense products are superior to the Patriot AD. Armament manufacturers are sensitive to "image," and there are quite a number of competing armaments manufacturers around the world.
Many questions arise from such a decision
In a world of production shortages, massive debt, drone swarms, etc... why would anyone “retire” any system - unless it was totally useless?
Also the article mentions how Israel thinks its own home-grown systems are better. If tiny Israel can create a cheaper and more effective system than the giant empire USA - what does that say about the cost and quality of the USA’s defense procurement oligopoly?
What one is getting from this article, one's own self, is that they're retiring those original Patriot 1.0 systems and upgrading them with the new and improved Patriot 3.n systems, or something else to that same effect that actually does perform better.
Or maybe they've come up with something of their own that they like better? That's a question.
Anyway this would fit into what the Zeepers have been trying to tell us; "NO, we're giving all the OLD hsit to Ukraine to clear the way for us to have all NEW STUFF!!"...
” Israel first used Patriots in combat in 1991 against approximately 40 Scud ballistic missiles that Iraq fired at its cities. While the bombardments did not kill large numbers of people, Israel was disappointed with the Patriot’s pitiful performance, with officials estimating it shot down only one or possibly even zero Scuds. “
This is not the narrative we were given at the time.
I wonder how different Ukraine War media narratives will be in 30 years, compared to what we are being told now.
The Patriot Missile was designed in the late ‘60’s……of course it took years to test, etc before it was produced in 1976
…my husband was part of this team
It has served us well…..
What....something better then Patriot.? What have I missed..?
Well, Ukraine could have chosen to be much less Nazi, and maybe Israel would have helped them, but then, a not Nazi Ukraine wouldn't need 'em in the first place.