How the Patriot Missile System Works in Ukraine | WSJ 

This information is important to counter the Russian misinformation around claims of successful strikes against Patriot. Why is it important? i dont get it? im just a Taxpayer

@@nischuma6910 The taxes you pay in Saint Petersburg aren't funding the Patriot systems sent to Ukraine so your comprehension of the situation is not required. Your money is, however, funding the various weapons which Ukraine is capturing and turning against Russia so maybe you should begin to concern yourself with this detail. Maybe you can summon the courage to pressure your government to stop sending weapons to Ukraine and your taxes can begin to do something helpful for your country. Russia is going to need every ruble it can scrape up to rebuild itself over the next century after this calamity.

​@@dust1209Why do you feel the need to justify the Patriot system works. Russia still sends missiles to kiev and we hear of damages every now and then.

Nukes.

@@SanchoPanza1605 True.

thats practically ALL batteries US have

Yes. ....

50 launchers, not batteries

How can you, in the comfort of your first world problems, blame him?

Just bribe Joe Biden with 50 different flavors of ice cream,I think he would approves all 50 of them to Ukraine 😅

patriot destroyed a few months ago there, do not write nonsense

Stop rotting your brain with RT as your source of news, by their reports Ukrainian army has been killed 100 times@@user-yj1on3bf1v

*It looks like the Military Industrial Complex is still PROFITING from wars that the USA doesn't need to engage in; all at the expense to the American Tax Payer. This whole defending "democracy" over there is complete B/S. Ukraine is supremely corrupt, the Germans are affected much more by Putin's cowardliness IN UKRAINE than we are as Americans, and Putin's invasion of Ukraine does not affect our own "so-called" democracy here. That's an incontrovertible fact.* *Nevertheless, we [American] TAX PAYERS bear the greatest FINANCIAL expense (more then the Germans and all of Western Europe) -- all while we have over half a million homeless Americans sleeping and starving in our streets, dilapidated roads, failing public schools, crime on the rise, lack of decent affordable healthcare, etc. that's also an irrefutable fact. The ultimate reality and bottom line is this: No one will dare invade the USA, not even China. There is no need for us to be the policeman of the world WASTING AWAY TAX PAYER DOLLARS on FOREIGN WARS. Americans are getting fleeced and shafted by its corrupt, warmongering, inept leaders.*

@@user-yj1on3bf1v Stop spewing Russian propaganda. Everyone knows this did not happen.

dude..? you've clearly never been enlisted or have any idea what you're talking about. if you've even been remotely close to anyone in the military they will tell you they do drills and real testing on everything. war technology is always inanely precise and tested.

I think battery dont staying to much time at one place, so need to pack it move to another place and deploy again.

it is cheaper to talk and make win-win cooperations.

​@@MetaView7russia doesnt want to give back UA territory, so the war how on ...

@@nolkerss No one wants UA territory. No one ever said he wants UA territory. No one wants to listen, so the battle goes on. I have no dog in the fight; all i can do is smh.

@@MetaView7I am sure you a random commenter is privy to the peace talks. Please enlighten us.

@@dannyr9703 You can read the peace treaty proposals of December 2021.

DF Hypersonic Missiles 🇨🇳 : Please hold our TSINGTAO 🍺🍻

Well i mean ukraine managed to use it offensively💀💀💀

Yep 👍

The patriot system has been a failure, most of the battery's have been destroyed by Russian missles and america is seeing the weakness of this system now ,There is a very limited supply of them and as they are deployed they are targeted and destroyed by Russia very quickly

@@Booz2020 chinese knock off?

$$$$$$$

thats right lol what a big mistake

PAC 2 uses a fragmentation warhead, the latest version PAC 2 GEM received new airframe from PAC 3 & improved Guidance (Guidance Enhanced Missile) as well as another Fuze upgrade. Army recognition has all the tech specs if ur interested.

I read this as 2pac at first 😂

​@@jdogdarknessno they don't. Raytheon's PAC-2 GEMs are still proximity fused. Lockheed Martin manufactures the PAC-3 hit-to-kill

@@bryanhoppe1481 i didnt say otherwise? lol Read again. Unless your confusing a fuze as a type of warhead. blast fragmentation warheads still can use fuzes.

@@bryanhoppe1481which GEM are we on now? 10 years ago we had GEM-T and GEM+

So what happened to Russian aircraft fleet ?

@@7_years_and_ absolutely I have no idea but the problem the Ukrainian doesn’t have air support in combat areas and no-one can tell when it will be

Yeah that’s why I support Ukraine getting western fighters like the Vipers or the Hornets

They’ll get F-16s eventually

=== === Win-Win Cooperation is the ONLY WAY to Co-Exist on this Finite Planet.

Patriot is designed to counter short range missiles, THAAD is designed to counter medium range missiles.

Or technology just kept on evolving?

In fact USA is the minor provider. Ukraine received 4 of them, 3 batterys from Germany, 1 battery from USA.

oh ya? like in desert storm where they claimed it was shooting down 96% of saddams scuds when later it was revealed it was more like 9%? it wasnt designed for a lot of these threats...

​​​@@operator9858You're overstating the failure rate and pulling numbers out of thin air. Not to mention that was back in 1991 with the old PAC-1 and PAC-2 missiles. There have been a ton of improvements to the system over the past 30 years....nothing compares to it.

@@MikeJones__Who well if they are firing pac2's we saw them blast off about $130 million dollars of them in a single salvo a few weeks ago because the inexperienced crews are operating in automatic mode.. right before most of the battery was supposedly destroyed...

@@operator9858 it's SOP that the patriot fires 2 missiles at every incoming threat. From the reports it sounds like most if not all incoming missiles were successful intercepted so definitely not a waste. It's also bogus that "most of the battery" was destroyed. A patriot battery consists of multiple pieces of equipment spread out across a very wide area. From what was gathered is 1 launcher was damaged by falling debris and quickly repaired.

​@@MikeJones__Whodont waste your time. Operator is a paid misinformation troll

They have mostly been deployed around Kyiv, so... Not well? How are those socks on your feet doing at keeping your head warm?

No. And yes. They are 2 different missions. The Lazer is really good if 1 missile is coming at you. Patriot can handle saturation fire. That said single missile attacks are pretty common so being able to save ammo by using a laser is a good option.

Democracy? Zelenskyy got rid of elections, opposing parties, and the free press in Ukraine 🤡🤣

Stop spreading lies and trying to crush democracy. You joined RU-vid like few days ago with a very likely intent to spread such lies. Are you paid by MAGA guys or something?

@@WeWazKangzCan’t you say that about Russia too?

@@WeWazKangz wow, no elections when Martial Law was announced, totally not a normal thing! getting rid of pro-russian parties after being invaded by Russians, so outrageous!

@@yaxsuoRussia never said they are a democracy and they are fighting for it lol😂

Zelenskyy says " the country wants as many as 50 " This is getting way out of control

@@vinny7114 “The reality is 50 Patriots will, for the most part, prevent people from dying." It doesn’t sound like a want to me clearly.

they already sold their country...

There are certainly a bunch of other systems around Kyiv like NASAMS or IRIS-T SLM (soon also some SLS launchers) and SHORAD systems like Gepard.

I look at it this way it is like they said it is only one part of a system of different air defense systems. For the smaller stuff you have MANPADS, the Gepard's, and other systems. I think the Patriot systems would be more for the ballistic side of things. It would be nice to see Ukraine get more of the systems and missiles to replenish what they have used so far.

Like it has made a difference? Any of this kit giving Ukraine an advantage? Every system we send Russia creates a solution and we’re back to square one. Except for the 100’s of thousands dead of course

For what?

Lets send you instead

Send all your money to Ukraine Mikey, they need your help!

They are just mad that vlad does not pay his factory workers so well and idk.. maybe the fact states are swamped with people looking to purchase said systems... look at how south Korea is doing.. how many tanks are Poland buying again...

He can use his own bank account, don't take my tax money 🤑🤑🤑, we have a lot f internal problems in this country

That's a good joke.

they do NOT need 50 💀 3 would be a fine amount, spread across the different regions of the donbass

@@hythu6816I know right, also let’s talk about how no one is talking about how corrupt Ukraine is, and that no one cared about them until the war.. US and NATO has no reason to be helping and we should be using the 6+ billion dollars to fix our own country.

They certainly do. ❤

Why they didn’t stop onyx missile p800??.

Because it is

tbf it can't stop hypersonic missiles which Russia uses so its effective against some weapons and useless against others

@@riddhirahman Once the Patriot arrived, and the rumoured Kinzhal shoot down, Russia suddenly stopped launching missiles at Kiyv, I wonder why.

😂😂😂

@@chtuh Calm down homie

​@@ChosenOne6666Kiev residents ask to take the Patriot home

are they now? this is cia central yo lol

delovering propaganda…

lol, no, not really. but i love the pfp

for cold hard reality, try rhw hindustan news

@sleepdeprivedmaniac: wall street journal is just junk press

Agreed. That’s the typical sales package. It’s like 8-12 launchers, 2 radar units and the command and control module. Missiles too. Still expensive but likely to come down in price.

@@SeeLasSee since they are selling them to select countries do you think the US has a better missile defense system to take it place ?

amen

they aren't firing all at once and batteries can talk to eachother hivemind warfare russian launch platforms are additionally limited, especially for firing Kinzhals. additionally, Patriot can be the spotter for other systems. "yo heads up there's gonna be XYZ entering your detection area from bearing ABC in like a minute just an fyi" "thanks guys we'll be ready"

Where tf can you see 128 ?

@@rawk2058 so unfortunately i cant give you links on youtube. but, if you go to army recognition or if you look into PAC-3 missiles, youll find out a launcher can hold 16. Each patriot battery can have up to 8 launchers, therefore up to 128 missiles. There's many different patriot missiles, some are bigger than others. A more realistic loadout would be mixed. If you use the largest(& oldest) variants available, a launcher holds 4.

definitely missiles lol, 50 batteries is just absurd

Russia can bully neighbours or destroy the world. But nothing in between. Russia is incapable of fighting a conventional war against Nato.

First of all, back then it was the Mujahideen not Taliban yet, Secondly the "Taliban" you implied, in my book the Mujahideen wasn't a sovereign country or a body of legitimate government, they were rebels or guerillas, since Afghanistan had a running government supported by the Soviets, hence that's why the West sent Stinger portable missile, Blowpipe MANPADs etc something shoulder fired in terms of missiles, also deliveries of lots of AK-47 type of rifles from China, yes China, captured AKs by Israel and many others so it won't appeared like the US and West sending the Mujahideen their own product like at the time was M-16 for the US and FAL for Western European countries.If you're the modern day or present day Vietminh, Vietcong or any other rebels that was trying to take down your running government, the West or the Russians would never send high profile weapons systems like US made Patriot, Himars, Javelin or Russian made S-300, T-72 or T-80 tanks, probably small arms, light cannons and shoulder fired missile systems. if you're sending high profile weapons then either the West or Russia would get caught red handed that they supported guerrillas or rebels. Thirdly since Ukraine is a sovereign country and has legitimate government and military the West and the US would be comfortable with sending their weapons to Ukraine and it doesn't have to go through clandestine procedure, so the West aren't reluctant in sending their best and newest weapons to Ukraine. During the Vietnam War, North Vietnam a legitimate government before reunification had S-75 missile system, T-54/55s, PT-76s, Mi series helicopters etc during the war from the Soviets. The Vietcongs in the South would only get AK rifles, ammunition and probably equipment for soldiers like helmets, radios, but nothing more.

What do you mean? Have you seen Charlie’s War they made the best MANPADs and both US and Pakistan sent billions of dollars

They’ve become significantly more unhinged and psychotic. And they don’t want to lose a war so fast after Afghanistan.

Что изменилось? У США в очередной раз закончились деньги и они, как всегда в истории решили исправить свои финансовые дела с помощью войны в Европе.

Nope.

@@armadspengler2717 Yes

@@rowdy8814 LOL "Rowdy"