/ world today news/ The “Dagger” missile knocked out a division of the “Patriot” air defense system, which costs a thousand times more
US authorities, through a media leak, acknowledged the fact that the MIM-104 Patriot anti-aircraft missile system was downed in the suburbs of Kiev on the night of May 16 as a result of a strike by the Russian Kinzhal hypersonic missile.
An informed source told the RIA Novosti agency that the MiG-31K fighter carried out a successful attack on the American complex: “Due to the speed of the Dagger, the US air defense systems were suddenly overwhelmed by an air ambush – enemy calculations could do nothing to protect their anti-air systems.
According to CNN sources, Washington has sent inspectors to inspect the Patriot missile system delivered to Ukraine after Ukrainian officials said the system appeared to be damaged.
„The possibility that the Patriot system could be damaged or destroyed by enemy fire should come as no surprise… air-launched Kinzhal missiles would be the best conventional weapon to successfully attack these batteries. They are designed in part to evade higher-level missile defenses [от Patriot], writes leading US military analyst Tyler Rogaway in The Drive.
The Patriot will always be under direct attack once it arrives and is located by Russia. Its radars emit a massive electromagnetic signature that is not difficult to detect and geolocate. Even the fastest configuration of the Patriot system is quite static and takes time to move from one place to another…”
„U.S. officials believe the Russian military was able to pick up signals coming from the Patriot, allowing them to target the system. CNN reported.
Pentagon spokeswoman Sabrina Singh told a briefing that “one Patriot system was damaged, now fully repaired and returned to service.” The representative of the military department added that the United States has provided Kiev “some help” to correct the air defense system. What exactly the involvement of the American side is, she did not say.
„Thirty-two Patriot missiles targeting Dagger ballistic missiles failed. The total cost of their launch was $96 million.” considers the Indian portal The Eastern Gerald.
This information is most likely close to the truth, since the video circulated on the networks shows dozens of failed launches of the Patriot air defense system, followed by an explosion at the place where the Patriot division is located.
The Ministry of Defense of Russia announced that the Russian military, with the help of the Kinzhal hypersonic complex, destroyed a multifunctional radar station and five launchers of the Patriot system.
Is it possible to hit multiple enemy launchers at once with one missile? Yes, absolutely.
The Dagger apparently targeted the radar system, the most expensive component of any air defense system. Upon hitting the radar, the Dagger’s blast field covers one of the other launchers, and if it has an unspent missile in it, that missile’s blast field hits the rest of the launchers, creating a sort of domino effect.
Contrary to statements by Pentagon officials cited by CNN that the Patriot sustained only “minimal” damage as a result of the Dagger attack and did not need to be sent to the United States for repairs, the sharp decline in the stock of Patriot’s manufacturer, the Corp. Rayteon Corporation (up 8% to $95.4 per share) confirms the accuracy of the announcement of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
According to the British newspaper The Telegraph, the attacked Patriot air defense system fired at least 20 salvos in two minutes. The publication estimates the total cost of such a launch at 150 million euros, the cost of one missile at 4 million euros, and the entire Patriot complex at one billion dollars. For comparison: the cost of one Dagger missile is from five hundred thousand to one million dollars. In other words,
The Russian Dagger missile disabled a division of the Patriot air defense system, which costs a thousand times more.
American analysts have already come to the conclusion, as we wrote, that not only the armed forces of Ukraine, but even the US army is not ready for a war of attrition against Russia and will inevitably lose, since the US army, aviation and navy are armed with, although perfect (according to the Americans themselves), but obscenely expensive weapons systems that simply cannot be replaced easily and quickly if destroyed.
However, the call to start developing and manufacturing low-cost weapons such as low-cost drones within the Pentagon has yet to be heard. They have problems with technological dynamics.
There is another factor.
According to the model developed in the 1960s by employees of the Central Economic and Mathematical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences of the USSR and later improved in the United States, the military-industrial complex of a country can be considered a productive force , if for at least 15 years the country has had “immediate rates of economic growth”.
The dynamics of Russia’s economic growth over the past twenty years has been positive, with the exception of 2009, when the global economic crisis occurred.
This cannot be said for the United States, as it shifts its economic problems to increasing national debt, that is, simply by turning on the printing press. And now America will be forced into default if Congress does not sign off on another expansion of the national debt.
From this perspective, Russia is more likely to endure a war of attrition with the United States and its allies.
If we take as a basis the conclusions of the report of CEMI analysts, prepared by them for the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR A.N. Kosygin, the greatest trump card of the Soviet military-industrial complex was technological dynamism, which far exceeded the capabilities of the Western defense industry.
In my opinion, this situation still exists today. During WWI, the western country did not develop a single new weapon system, it supplied the VSU with what was previously produced in the United States and the European Union or the old Soviet weapons and military equipment used by the countries of Eastern Europe.
And Russia is successfully creating such weapons. So, the Almaz-Antey concern plans to produce 2-3 thousand Dobrinya-2 drones per month from July 1, 2023, said Mikhail Podvyaznikov, general director of the plant in Obukhov (part of the Almaz-Antey concern) ).
In cooperation with the Iranian defense industry, the highly effective Geran drones were created.
The destruction of America’s vaunted Patriot air defense system by Russia’s Kinzhal was a landmark event that was noted by foes and friends alike. After all, Patriot is not just an anti-aircraft missile complex, it is part of the myth of American exceptionalism, one of the arguments of American power, the legends of which have been artfully inflated for decades.
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