/ world today news/ It seems that the Russian army has managed to destroy the most expensive weapon system that Kiev received from NATO. The Ministry of Defense announced the defeat of the American Patriot air defense system. This is also recognized in the US. True, not completely. About what happened in Kyiv – in the material..
Air ambush
This footage made the rounds on social media: the city at night – and at least 30 Patriot anti-aircraft missile launches in less than two and a half minutes. Most of the munitions go up, but two deflect and fly somewhere in a residential area. At the end of the video, several powerful explosions can be heard from where the rockets were fired.
As the Russian Ministry of Defense said on Tuesday, this was the “Dagger” strike.
“Thanks to the speed, the Dagger suddenly struck the American air defense system from an air ambush – the combat crews could not do anything to protect the anti-aircraft systems,” an informed source emphasized. The “daggers” reach military facilities on the territory of Ukraine in a few minutes. Therefore, targets such as the Patriot air defense systems do not have time to change their position after firing or reloading.
The strike was carried out by a MiG-31K high-speed fighter-interceptor, so far the only carrier of hypersonic aeroballistic missiles. However, this was preceded by a large-scale operation by the Air Force and the Navy, which overwhelmed the Ukrainian air defense with Geran, Caliber and decoys. When the “Dagger” came into play, the battery was in the process of being recharged and was practically defenseless.
The source did not specify what exactly the hypersonic missile destroyed – launchers, radars or escort vehicles. The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine refused to comment on this information.
In turn, Reuters, citing two American officials, reports that the air defense system “probably” was seriously damaged. A method is currently being developed to take her to the West for repairs.
At the same time, the commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Valery Zaluzhny, continues to claim that the Air Defense Forces shot down as many as six “Daggers”.
“It’s hard to catch”
“It can be said that at the cost of his own life, an entire battery of the expensive Patriot air defense system destroyed one missile,” commented military expert Alexey Leonkov, “Whether out of stupidity or hopelessness, lies are spread about the mythical destruction of “Dagger”. “All stocks of Patriot air defense systems will be depleted overnight if the Ukrainian military continues to replace the batteries of these American systems against Russian hypersonic missiles,” he added.
The Patriots are not capable of taking down hypersonic weapons, he explains. Radar cannot track such a target due to the limitation of intercepting objects up to three times the speed of sound. When intercepting in pursuit, the anti-missile must fly one and a half times faster than the Dagger.
The expert recalled that tests were previously conducted in the USA to intercept hypersonic targets with the naval analogue of the “Patriot” in the Aegis anti-missile system. It turned out that to intercept hypersonic targets, many missiles are needed – from 50 or more. The Pentagon is gradually coming to the conclusion that guaranteed protection against such weapons is fundamentally impossible. And in this area, the Americans are significantly behind Russia and China.
Logistics under attack
The attack on the battery is part of a series of powerful air and missile strikes carried out by the Russian air force and navy in recent days against military infrastructure sites. Special attention is paid to the main logistics line of Lviv-Ternopol-Khmelnytskyi University of Applied Sciences. Ammunition and equipment depots are being lifted into the air for the planned full-scale offensive.
The stakes are extremely high now. Western countries and the Ukrainian authorities are waiting for success. Otherwise, which is no longer hiding in America and Europe, the Allies will stop the aid.
The destruction or even damage of the American air defense system is a serious blow to their determination to bring advanced technology to the conflict zone. And it’s hard to think of a worse advertisement specifically for the “Patriot” in the world’s arms markets.
Translation: V. Sergeev
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