Russia has said that they took out a Patriot missile air defense system operating in Kiev. They apparently used one of their hypersonic missiles to take it out.
RT:
A precision strike by a Russian hypersonic Kinzhal missile has destroyed a Patriot air defense system in Kiev, the Defense Ministry in Moscow reported on Tuesday. The Ukrainian government previously claimed that Kinzhal missiles had been intercepted by the US-made weapons platform.
The Russian military did not provide further details about the strike, which was the first time Moscow claimed to have hit the long-range system supplied to Ukraine by its Western backers.
Kiev reported that it had withstood a massive missile attack by Russian forces on Monday night. The Ukrainian military claimed to have intercepted six Kinzhal missiles, in addition to various other aerial targets.
The Russian ministry confirmed the attack in a daily briefing on Tuesday, stating that it had used long-range precision weapons to hit military targets, including “Ukrainian troops positions and places of storage of munitions, weapons and military hardware delivered from Western nations.”
I do not believe the Ukrainian claims about them being able to shoot down these hypersonic missiles. They’ve provided no proof that they’ve shot down one of these missiles. Just sounds like more propaganda and lies from this demonic Jew regime.
Others have offered similar commentary noting that these Patriot systems failed to offer any meaningful defense.
⚡️I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but after careful review of this video, it appears that the air defence battery (most likely patriot) tried to save itself, but failed. It most probably got toasted. pic.twitter.com/tRAB3O4Y9e
— War Monitor (@WarMonitors) May 16, 2023
I counted 30 Patriot PAC-3 MSE launches here.
The FY2024 costs of these per missile is about $$5,275,000
That was $158,250,000 fired in about two minutes. And as we see, the battery or something else likely got blown up. So it failed in its mission. pic.twitter.com/9rwPnHkNGu
— Fennec_Radar (@RadarFennec) May 16, 2023
30 US Patriot PAC-3 MSE launch at a cost of $5 million per missile. That’s $150 million gone within 2 mins. At the end the Patriot launch platforms were destroyed by Russian missiles. Why would any military still want to buy Patriot after this failure? pic.twitter.com/JiNr06y0Rt
— Kim Dotcom (@KimDotcom) May 16, 2023
The Patriot system is an outdated warfare technology that was originally put in service back in the 1980s. It is actually quite absurd to believe that it is capable of shooting down these modern hypersonic missiles that the Russians have.
The Russians are way ahead of the game when it comes to hypersonic missile technology. The United States and their idiotic diversity hires have had numerous failed hypersonic missile tests in recent years.
Washington’s hypersonic missile test fails, while Russia and China lead in development
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— RT (@RT_com) March 30, 2023
I look forward to seeing how the pro-Ukraine shills spin this one. Should be funny to see.
