At least one, likely two Patriot launchers have been destroyed by a missile strike from Russia in Donetsk. Initially reported as S-300, but identified as bei...
I’ve red patriot is a “billion dollar system”. Losing these hurts a lot. I don’t know if Germany has a lot of these launchers. The mobile launchers are from Germany I believe.
Patriot is billion dollar system, but that’s entire system with the destroyed launcher being the cheaper part. (IIRC there are 6 launchers in single system)
The main issue is that there’s limited amount of the mobile launchers available as Patriot was built primarily as static AA defense.
Correct. MAN is a German company that makes trucks & busses and unlike the US, Germany has truck mounted Patriots. This was long speculated to be the tactic Ukraine used for those ambushes, so unfortunately I would suspect this loss to be true and probably harder to replace.
I’ve red patriot is a “billion dollar system”. Losing these hurts a lot. I don’t know if Germany has a lot of these launchers. The mobile launchers are from Germany I believe.
Patriot is billion dollar system, but that’s entire system with the destroyed launcher being the cheaper part. (IIRC there are 6 launchers in single system)
The main issue is that there’s limited amount of the mobile launchers available as Patriot was built primarily as static AA defense.
Correct. MAN is a German company that makes trucks & busses and unlike the US, Germany has truck mounted Patriots. This was long speculated to be the tactic Ukraine used for those ambushes, so unfortunately I would suspect this loss to be true and probably harder to replace.