Western Air Defense in its Element: Another US Patriot SAM Fail in Kiev

The controversial US Patriot SAM system is at it again - fails to intercept an Iskander missile, strikes a building instead, while the Iskander lays waste to Zelensky regime Gestapo SBU facility nearby.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The sham Patriot PAC-3 is supposed to be a "hit-to-kill" missile but it fails to hit anything and is unable to deliver much fragmentation to bring down targets but stills falls on the ground sometimes hitting ammunition dumps or other explosives causing damage and casualties.

The Lockheed Martin Patriot PAC-3 suddenly graduates on paper to "hit-to-kill" when it is no longer possible to carve out mass/space for a full-fledged explosive and fragmentation warhead (the engine ate it all up) and by a strong-willed yank genius decision the missile is declared so "fast" and so "precise" that it will hit targets with a direct hit - it will have to, you know, as it now has no warhead worth mentioning. 

Since the chances of this are estimated soberly, that is, close to zero, a small fragmentation warhead is still cut in, and they hope to hit with it full-fledged ballistic missiles (for which kinetic interception was initially invented since a Scud in the last leg of its trajectory ate up the fragments of the previous PAC-2 without noticing) only by chance.

But still it fails, falls on ground and kills innocent  bystanders or blows up buildings.

Also, Russian Su-34 are reportedly able to survive multiple Patriot missile near hits denying direct hits and shrugging off proximity detonations, with no credible reports of a Patriot missile ever shooting down anything apart from, maybe, a slow flying parody drone.

 

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