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.
Less than one minute later, what appears to be…
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.
Less than one minute later, what appears to be a Russian hypersonic missile comes in and surgically takes out the battery. No buildings destroyed, no civilians injured. A few Americans with the battery might have been torched. Why should Americans care? US defenses against Russia's nuclear arsenal are antiquated. Even so, Obama-Biden continue playing nuclear chicken. Not responsible on the part of the Obama-Biden regime. The same Russian missiles can be fitted with nukes.
Next up: Time for Zelenskyy to bend over, place his head between his legs and kiss his sorry ass goodbye!
Commenting on the video of the purported Russian direct hit on the Patriot battery, Kim Dotcom wrote on Twitter, "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?"
For these reasons, the Pentagon is unlikely to confirm the event even if true, given it consistently and almost exclusively backs the narrative advanced by Ukraine's defense ministry. For example, last Thursday US defense officials announced confirmation of Ukraine's claims that its military intercepted an inbound Russian hypersonic missile utilizing the Patriot system. That was the first time of the war that the Ukrainian side claimed to have accomplished the feat. The Kremlin has rejected this narrative, saying its hypersonic missiles have yet to be defeated.
Meanwhile, the Ukrainians are still claiming they shot down six entire Kinzhal hypersonic missiles in a single night, which seems dubious given the projectiles travel at multiple times to the speed of sound and have been touted since their development as "impossible" to defend against.
