Damaged Patriot missile system is already repaired – Pentagon

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On Thursday, the US Department of Defence confirmed that the Patriot air defence system in Ukraine was indeed damaged and has already been repaired.

Source: Sabrina Singh, Deputy Pentagon Press Secretary, as European Pravda reports

Quote: "I can confirm that one Patriot system was damaged, but now it is repaired and is in full operating order," she said.

Details: The representative of the US Ministry of Defence refused to provide other details, redirecting the journalists to the Ukrainian side. At the same time, in response to another question, Singh noted that it was "minor damage".

Previously: Earlier, the media reported the damage to the Patriot air defence system during the Russian attack on the night of Tuesday. Ukraine and the United States began discussing how best to fix the system.

Against this background, on Wednesday evening, the Ministry of Defence of Russia decided to announce that they had "completely destroyed" five launchers of the American Patriot air defence system.

Patriot is considered one of the most advanced US air defence systems, including against aircraft, cruise and ballistic missiles. It usually includes launchers, radars and other auxiliary means.

Background: The Russian Federation has already attacked the US air defence system with hypersonic missiles, in particular on 4 May, but unsuccessfully. Instead, the Ukrainian military, as confirmed by the Pentagon, intercepted the missile using the Patriot system.

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bermanji on May 19th, 2023 at 04:07 UTC »

My father is a Ukrainian Jew and he was on the development team for PATRIOT back when it was first developed (he was a lead engineer on the tracking system). In the past few days, a major segment of his career has been proven to be far more important than he even imagined and he's simply over the moon, he almost finds it hard to believe that PATRIOT is capable of the interceptions it has accomplished. He's long-retired by now but he calls me almost every day just to find out the latest news re: PATRIOT -- he was really shocked it was deployed in UKR to begin with and now he's just beaming with pride.

Coulrophiliac444 on May 19th, 2023 at 03:18 UTC »

They used the Handyman's Secret Weapon: Duct Tape.

macross1984 on May 19th, 2023 at 02:50 UTC »

Score: One US Patriot missile system (was) damaged.

Conversely, Russia lost S400 missile sytem.

https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/russia-lost-air-defense-system-ukrainian-rocket