Posted on 05/28/2023 4:11:18 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
The Patriot is the main air defense system that the US has in its arsenal, with the capability to track 100 targets from 60 miles away.
Last week, Fabian Hoffmann, a doctoral research fellow at the Oslo Nuclear Project, told UK's Sky News that after Ukraine recently claimed to have repelled multiple Russian hypersonic Kinzhal missiles, Russia has "never looked weaker."
"This is a truly remarkable development," he said
Hoffmann added, in a tweet, "The fact that Ukraine was able to defend this attack is amazing, in my opinion, whether the final interception rate is 90% or 100%."
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With a mortar, you have a few seconds from when you hear the tube to hopefully find some cover.
The Patriot system sees them coming in from miles out...
An excellent detailed talk on the Patriot system. The speaker is a former US Army E-7. https://youtu.be/RDJgQErMSdA
amazin’
I work with a guy at BAE who demonstrated a system to the Army, mounted on a Bradley, that could shoot down an RPG. It did not have to be pointed at the RPG when it was fired. It would have cost more than the Bradley, and would have been the only mission the Bradley could perform, but still, impressive.
Sounds like the Ukrainians re-engineered the Patriot system and now it works far better than the IDIOTS at Raytheon designed it.
...and all done in 2 weeks!!!
Hmmm.
Here is a very good explanation of the system.
Try it you might like it.
“Here is a very good explanation of the system.”
Thanks, but I’ll stick with the Ukrainian MIRACLE WORKERS line - gives me hope!!!
Nobody is blinder than the person who decides he does not want to see.
Maybe it’s just that the Kinzhal is not all it was claimed to be.
I was working at Raytheon when the Equipment Division merged with Missile Systems, around 1998. Our systems engineering department was merged with the Patriot systems engineering. We had dozens of systems in our portfolio, COBRA DANE, ROTHR, PAVE PAWS, BMEWS, inter alia. Patriot was bigger than all of them combined. Those guys were sharp, they knew their stuff and produced the finest, most reliable SAM system ever produced. There were no hypersonic Russian, or other missiles at the time. New users extended a very successful design to new uses.
Exactly.
“Nobody is blinder than the person who decides he does not want to see.”
Let me guess, the Ukrainians borrowed a Revolutionary War tactic: “Don’t shoot until you see the Whites of their Guidance Systems!”
“I was working at Raytheon when the Equipment Division merged with Missile Systems, around 1998.”
Link please.
Reality check, for those remaining few freepers who still value reality.
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/latest-headlines-digest-the-wests
I personally don’t care if they re-engineered it. But it means to me they know the system top to bottom. We opened it up and gave them the keys to it.
Because hey, they are our “friends” we gave them, with the open, enthusiastic, anti-American grifting support of this putrid Administration the keys to whatever hardware and software keys they needed.
Because, hey. They are our FRIENDS.
So, decades of secrecy trying to protect it as much as perhaps, Raytheon may have tried as a corporate entity, is for nothing.
And Ukraine is only our “friend” as long as they get money from us, and lots of it. Which means they aren’t our friends.
Which means it won’t be long until our enemies have it and know how to defeat it.
Ukraine is one of the largest kleptocratic oligarchical countries in the world, so “Nice defensive missile system you got there. Wouldn’t want anything bad to happen to its capabilities.” is an integral part of their script.
https://www.referenceforbusiness.com/history2/44/Raytheon-Company.html
In early 1995 the company created Raytheon Electronic Systems from the merger of its Missile Systems Division and Equipment Division.
#3 the ability was there and just not announced to potential enemies.
#4 Could be the quality of their education system far surpasses ours and they can still do things with pencils and sliderules that we can’t do without computers and endless VR simulations.
They claim alot.
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