The Russian Defense Ministry claimed it destroyed a US-made Patriot air defense system in Kyiv in a missile strike. CNN has not seen any independent or verifiable evidence that a Patriot system was destroyed. CNN’s Nic Robertson reports. #CNN #News
Russia claims it hit a US-made Patriot air defense system
Russia also claimed they hit 17 HIMARS, before they were even delivered.
Around 50 by now 😂
And it was on one of the floors of a multi story building…
they killed more then a million Ukros, taken 1/5 of the country, and destroyed its Naval and Air force…and Ukroland is holding on only because of 300+ billon of money and equipment from the whole collective west… not that bad for One single country
And the Ukrainian air force has lost several times the aircraft it started the war with.
A Patriot battery is comprised of 6 launchers with 16 rockets each plus command center and radars.
Which are at a considerable distance from each other. You would need to hit each component with a missile or drone. So even if the battery was hit, I doubt too much of it was damaged, maybe just one component that can be replaced
Unless it’s the radars or the command center right?
Also there are decoys, especially for the radars. The Russians may have been correct in thinking they hit the system, but they hit a decoy.
Не на часi Like he said there are many launch sites so even damaging one won’t take the system down at all.
@Arceus Thomas Those are most valuable, especially the command center, as it houses the operators as well, and it takes months to train new ones. But everything else can be easily replaced, in a matter of hours.
US has a budget of 800 billion dollars a year. So even if Russia hits the Patriot batteries with every Kinzhal, they would still go bankrupt and face a revolution at home or simply stop as it won’t be any money left to produce more weapons.
It’s just boring basic math. Might take years and a lot of lives, but Russia can’t win, as it’s 30 times poorer than the West.
There must have been a delay by mistake at the MOD, – usually this happends before the equipment are even delievered !
As they say, even a broken clock gets the time right twice a day.
Their hypersonic missile ran into a Patriot missile and the Russian’s are calling that a win?…hahahaha
@Bryon Kidder it looks like a win to me 😂😂😂😂😂
@david soul how much did that hypersonic missile cost compared to the Patriot missile that did what it was designed to do?…lol
Maybe your looker is broken too?
Let’s just take Russia’s word at face value. Unless the command vehicle or radar vehicle is hit, a Patriot system will still be operational even if it loses a launcher vehicle or two.
Launcher is very difficult to hit only thing can be destroyed is radar or command vehicle
Much more honest than CNN I would say
@Suman Neogi They claimed to have destroyed 27 of the 18 Ukraine has.😂
Training takes time and this is about to cover all possible scenarios and leave an open door.
Top Gun training in dogfighting
Wow, those shovels must be amazing.
Seems they work better than the kinzhals anyway 🤣
I heard that a russian soldier shot down the death star with a single pistol shot….
I heard one ukraine soldier killed a entire battalion with a sling shot
No chance! That soldiers was part of the Elite 64th Sling Squadron.
Ghost of kiev wiped out the entire Russian airforce.
Actually that is true, he did a Russian told me, and he never lies.
Ghost of Kiev is from Ukraine…
18 from 18 from the free throw line. Stephen Curry would be proud.
No, the F-16 is the jet of choice because a lot of NATO countries are getting rid of theirs anyways, because they’re switching to F-35’s. According to top analysts the SAAB Gripen would be a better plane for the UAF, but the Swedes just don’t have any to give away. Same with the Eurofighter Typhoon.
S-300 ITS POINTLESS TO GIVE UKRAINE JETS.
@BruceWayneIsSober S-300 can be dodged
@Edward Valivonis LMFAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
@BruceWayneIsSober true facts
If all 18 Russian incoming missiles and drones were intercepted, how did Russia hit/take out a battery? It would’ve been intercepted quite a ways away, and whilst falling debris could injure the battery or set a building, forest, steppe/plains on fire, I just see a Patriot system (being made for a warfront) being a bit less susceptible to damage from debris.
The video I saw showed 2 massive explosions, sending up huge mushroom clouds. So the question is…was it a downed missile that caused the explosion, or was a battery actually hit and the patriot missiles exploded? Just have to wait for clarification I suppose.
36 missles out of 18 launched were intercepted
@Leo Nice one 😀
People always say “how come ww1 started over nothing? How come hitler invaded Poland?”
We are in a situation, where seemingly regional events can unfortunately very quickly become world conflicts
People who would say Russia invaded Ukraine over nothing is ignorant to what lead up to the invasion.
@Npc 24 I’m still trying to find out the truth about it. US media won’t really tell us. Not honestly.
@JOHN’S GUITAR, MUSIC AND DEMOS you can search Redacted. You’ll definitely get an understanding of the events leading up to this conflict
Good report keep it up.
first rejection, then anger, depression and then acceptance😂
russia resist ukraine support united states army patriot(러시아애 대항해 우크라이나 지원하는 미국 육군은 애국자)😠
Russia might as well have announced, “We don’t understand what a Patriot Air System is!” Given that each unit comprises several vehicles, kilometres apart, and given that we haven’t seen a nuclear mushroom or Daisy Cutter blast, anyone who knows what a Patriot System is KNOWS Russia didn’t hit squat!
@Ash Roskell how could you see if it wasn’t videoed or video not made public?
@Ash Roskell ok, war boi.
Apparently Russia doesn’t know the difference between an air defense system and an apartment building. This explains a lot.
lol 😅
We’re admitting it was struck. A billion of our tax dollars wasted. But, hey, Glory to Ukraine, right? LOL.
@Mister Roper’s Smile much better than losing American soldiers.
even the patriot system was damaged, it still accomplished a very significant task, i.e. intercepting barrages of hypersonic missiles.
Yeah but it was hit. You always launch multiple missiles in order to overwhelm the site. Russia sends 100 cruise missiles at once to overwhelm Ukraines S-300 systems. When Trump ordered a massive strike against Syria, they launched like 75 tomahawk missiles, because most would get shot down.
Except it didn’t, intercepted anything that is and got destroyed. So yeah, all good
No it won’t, no command and control system or no radar system means the its combat ineffective, think about it.
Why do they keep asking this man when he’s going to attack? It has to be the dumbest question ever asked in the history of man. ❤ GOD Bless Everyone
I know it’s ridiculous. Do they expect the time & place when they ask this
A single patriot system consists of multiple vehicles/trailers. These vehicles/trailers includes several radar units, a power supply unit, a command and control vehicle, and probably at least a half dozen launchers (each carrying between 4 and 16 missiles) spread over an area that is far too large for a single hit to take out more than two elements.