They appear to be the best anti-missile systems out there.
But it begs the question: Who will run out of missiles first?
Russia is producing 10 Kinzhals per month, minimum. Another dozen + of the Iskander. And those are just the Patriot targets.
Each Patriot system costs $2.5-3.0 Billion. Each missile costs $6 - $13 million, depending on model.
Quick, someone tell Congress that their concerns about hypersonic missile defence are unfounded.
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Can’t be true
John Conyers told us back in the ‘80s that you can’t hit a bullet with a bullet
At hypersonic speeds you can’t maneuver, so your trajectory is easy to predict. Who’da thunk it?
Vlad, you keep using that word.
I don't think it means what you think it means.
(cuz otherwise they wouldn't getting whacked)
I enjoy watching Israel’s Iron Dome in action. When a rocket’s trajectory will take it into the desert, with no people around, Iron Dome does not fire and waste a rocket.
Iron Beam - there are stories that Israel is deploying their Iron Beam technology. Directed energy lasers to defeat incoming rockets. Whether or not Iron Beam is functioning today, it will be eventually.
They said that missile defense would never be possible. Ronaldus Magnus knew that eventually we could “hit a bullet with a bullet.” They said that laser weapons were also science fiction.
Actually they can be very hard to kill. But Russia has crappy ones.
Actually, the patriot missile interceptor costs more like 4-5 million bucks but 72 missiles was a very expensive day - over 300 million dollars of very difficult to replace Patriots that should be used for the defense of America were just squandered by Ukraine for no good reason and no gain what so ever.
We are depleting our armories in this shit hole and the Chinese are laughing their asses off.
Feared by whom?
It’s a telegraph article and Ukraine has to show success for its quarterly fundraiser….
So I’ll wait for confirmation.