Ive Been telling people
about this for years.
Not only do we not have
very many of em,
wat we do have
is nowhere near as good
as what we have been told
they were.
PART 1
militarywatchmagazine.com
10/31/23
"The United States Military’s growing involvement in ongoing hostilities between Israel and Palestinian militia groups in the Gaza Strip, the deployment of new air defence assets to the Middle East as part of a broader surge in the country’s regional military presence has brought to light the growing strain on American air defences worldwide."
(That was 19 months ago.
Its only gotten worse.)
"Shortages in the quantities of assets available has been a leading driver of the issue, and appears unlikely to be addressed due to limited production capacities for existing air defence systems. The U.S. relies on ground based air defence systems not only for commitments in the Middle East, but also across multiple other theatres most notably Eastern Europe and the Pacific - in the former facing large Russian missile arsenals
and in the latter the arsenals of
Russia, China
and North Korea combined.
This has meant that allocation of new units to the Middle East, and earlier in the year donations to Ukraine, has serious implications for the balance of power in other regions. As China, North Korea, Russia and Iran, termed in Pentagon reports as America’s four ‘great power adversaries,’ have all continued to tremendously expand their missile capabilities, the very slow rate at which the U.S. Army has been able to acquire new air defence systems has ensured a continued diminishing of its ability to rely on such assets."
"Recently reinforcing American and allied forces in the Middle East, the U.S. Army deployed two of its 15 frontline battalions of Patriot missile systems - or 13 percent of the overall arsenal. A further two battalions are dedicated to training, while at least four of the active battalions have been deployed in Germany, Japan and South Korea.
(Thats 8 of 15 units.)
"The donation of Patriot systems to Ukraine, some of which have taken losses in combat, has further depleted the arsenal, while much greater depletion of Ukraine’s Soviet built air defence network has only increased the importance of receiving new systems. Each Patriot battalion is comprised of a headquarters element, and three to five firing batteries each with up to eight trailer mounted launchers surface to air missiles. Each also integrates an AN/MPQ-65 radar and various supporting equipment such as communications systems. The Patriot is particularly heavily relied on due to the lack of equivalent Western systems capable of providing a comparable defence against short ranged tactical ballistic missiles, which fly at lower altitudes than longer ranged missiles. Such missiles are fielded in very large numbers not only by the ‘great power adversaries,’ but also for more minor potential targets for American attacks such as Syria, Belarus, Algeria and the Lebanese militia Hezbollah which have acquired them from either Russia or North Korea."
Revelation 9:17-19
The horses and riders I saw in my vision looked like this: Their breastplates were fiery red, dark blue, and yellow as sulfur. The heads of the horses resembled the heads of lions, and out of their mouths came fire, smoke and sulfur.
(The warhead)
18 A third of mankind was killed by the three plagues of fire, smoke and sulfur that came out of their mouths. 19 The power of the horses was in their mouths and in their tails; for their tails were like snakes, having heads with which they inflict injury.
Look at that picture again.
Where is the missiles power?
In its head (warhead.)
And its tail (exhaust)
"The vulnerability of American targets to short range ballistic missile attacks was demonstrated by a limited Iranian strike in early January 2020 which caused 109 American casualties when targeting a base in Iraq using indigenous missiles. Syria has also used its ballistic missiles to launch precise attacks on oil extraction facilities in the country’s northeast, which are under Turkish control and had illegally extracted Syrian oil to help fund Turkish-backed militias there.
(This is 2023 remember)
"The possibility of similar strikes on American facilities in northwestern Syria, where illegal oil extraction operations are considerably larger, has widely been raised, with the size of the Syrian arsenal potentially posing an unprecedented threat to U.S. forces.
(Wheres that at since the new government took over?
Israel took out a lot of it out
in the early days after Damascus fell.)
"The Iranian and Syrian arsenals are nevertheless dwarfed by those fielded by Russia, China and North Korea each, meaning diversion of Patriots to the Middle East will only leave American forces more vulnerable in East Asia and Eastern Europe.
"Russia has not only continued to produce surface to air missiles on several times the scale of the United States, but it has also expanded manifold the scale of production of advanced ballistic missiles for its Iskander short ranged system since early 2022. This has significantly increased the pressure on already limited Western air defence capabilities in Europe and Northeast Asia. Nevertheless, with
its three leading adversaries outside the Middle East
increasingly fielding missiles which are considered
beyond the capabilities of the Patriot
to reliably intercept,
using irregular semi ballistic trajectories like the Korean KN-23 and Russian Iskander, or even hypersonic glide vehicles like the Chinese DF-17, Patriots may well be able to have more of an effect in the Middle East where arsenals are still comprised primarily of less advanced missile designs."
(Translation?
We are sitting ducks in the Ind0-Pacific.
What happened was,
when we went off finding Bin Laden?
Our adversary's saw an opportunity
and created shit we aint got
and we don't have any defense for.
Thats exactly what happened.)
"Alongside the Patriot, the United States in October redeployed a single THAAD high altitude air defence system from Fort Bliss in Texas to an undisclosed location in the Middle East. THAAD is a significantly more expensive system designed to provide a defence against longer ranged attacks and thus engage missiles at much higher altitudes. Only seven units are in service, and with deliveries remaining slow the next unit is expected to enter service only in 2025. Any potential losses in combat would thus be a major blow and limit the Army’s ability to respond to a wider range of threats with new deployments. All four ‘great power adversaries’ field medium or intermediate range ballistic missiles which would require THAAD systems to defend against, although Russia deploys such missiles only as air to surface platforms and has yet to field any longer ranged surface to surface tactical missiles. The most prominent other deployments of THAAD systems have been on Guam, where they were stationed under the Obama administration to defend against new generations of North Korean intermediate range ballistic missiles. The systems were also deployed to South Korea from 2016, which has been considered highly controversial due to its implications for Sino-Korean relations and its potential to draw the country in to a potential armed confrontation between America and its regional adversaries.
"The effectiveness of THAAD deployments beyond the continental United States has increasingly been brought to question as not only China and North Korea bring hypersonic glide vehicles into service, which allow strikes to be delivered far too fast for reliable interception, but also as Iran shows signs of having developed such a missile with possible Korean assistance. While Iran’s lack of nuclear weapons limits the threat its missile strikes can pose to American forces, the high degree of precision which it has demonstrated even with longer ranged attacks still raises serious questions regarding the sufficiency of American air defence assets deployed in the Middle East. The Patriot in particular, unlike competing Russian, Chinese and North Korean systems, is unable to provide a wide area defence or to fire 360 degrees around it which seriously limits the territories it is able to protect. While during the Gulf War in 1990-91 the United States was able to deploy the bulk of its forces including its tactical missile defence assets to the Middle East, where they were intended to counter Iraq’s very meagre and outdated ballistic missile arsenal albeit with highly questionable effect, today simultaneous tensions with multiple much more formidable military powers has placed America in a much weaker position to counter potential missile attacks.
(Weve since given a THADD system to Israel on
10/24/25)
PART 2
militarywatchmagazine.com
11/30/2024
(Over a year later than the first article.)
"The Netherlands has delivered three surface to air missile batteries from the MIM-104 Patriot system to the Ukrainian Armed Forces, with Dutch Defense Minister Ruben Brekelmans having confirmed the transfer on November 28. The Northern European state was one of the first three to deliver Patriot systems in early 2023 alongside the United States and Germany, with all three having sustained deliveries, while other NATO member states, such as Spain, began to make donations later on. The Netherlands is one of the few states that is still able to make deliveries, with other arsenals across the continent having been excessively depleted."
"The donations of Patriot systems on a very large scale have undermined the long range air defence capabilities of states across Europe, and left the United States’ own arsenal thinly stretched, particularly in light of the increased pressure it faced in the Middle East from late 2023. Modern variants of the Patriot system have engagement ranges of approximately 200 kilometres, and are capable of intercepting all kinds of aircraft, as well as short ranged ballistic missiles and multiple types of cruise missile. Other than the U.S.-Israeli David’s Sling system, which was developed by the two states and is fielded by Israel exclusively, no comparable systems to the Patriot exist in the Western world, which makes the depletion of the arsenal a particularly critical issue."
(It's not like our adversaries didnt know
what they were doing.
The Ukraine war
and the Hamas attack Oct 7th
and the Houthis
all served their purpose
to deplete our air defense assets.
It wasn't like they didn't have a plan.
Question is?
How long before they come in for the kill
so to speak?
How long?
Best guess?
Logical brain god gave ya.)
"The need to deliver more Patriot systems has continued to grow as Ukraine’s arsenal has been depleted, and as footage has continued to emerge confirming losses of the systems to Russian missile attacks. Russian sources first claimed the successful destruction of components of the system in May 2023 during a ballistic missile strike by MiG-31K fighters, although many of the more recent attacks have seen considerably more evidence released proving their success. Footage published on March 10 showed an Iskander-M ballistic missile strike the previous day destroying parts of a Patriot system near the Sergeevka locality in the disputed Donetsk region, while footage released by the Russian Defence Ministry in the second week of July showed the destruction of two Patriot batteries near the settlement Yuzhnoye in the Odessa region, which was also achieved using the Iskander-M."
(4400 mph BTW)
"Footage released in mid-August showed a successful strike on Patriot batteries at an unknown location in the Ukrainian theatre, as well as an associated AN/MPQ-65 radar station. Less than a week later additional footage showed an Iskander-M missile deploy cluster munitions to destroy three more batteries."
PART 3
And now a week ago:
5/22/25
At this point Russia is like:
You just keep sending them
and we will just keep
destroying them.
"The Netherlands is one of the few states that is still able to make deliveries, with other arsenals across the continent having been excessively depleted."
(Previous article.
Think that wasnt the plan Stan?
I disagree.
Thursday, October 20, 2022
("They dont fight wars like we do.")
"New drone footage from near the Ordzhonikidze settlement in the Dnepropetrovsk region has shown the destruction of multiple key components of an MIM-104 Patriot long range surface-to-air missile system operated by the Ukrainian Armed Forces, after it was successfully targeted by Russian forces using the Iskander-M ballistic missile system. The strike took place approximately 100 kilometres behind the frontlines, at a time when Russian forces in the region have made significant advances. Commenting on the strike, the Russian Defence Ministry claimed that the Patriot system’s AN/MPQ-65 multifunctional radar station, the combat control cabin, and missile launch vehicles, were all destroyed.
The Iskander-M system was developed specifically
to be able to evade detection or targeting
by systems such as the Patriot,
with its 9K720 missiles using
semi-ballistic depressed trajectories,
and being able to conduct extensive in flight manoeuvres throughout their flight paths.
(While we were off chasing Bin Laden .)
The systems have been used extensively to target Ukrainian air defence systems in the past."
"Ukraine first received Patriot systems delivered by Germany and the Netherlands in mid-April 2023, with further units being delivered by the United States later that month. As Western arsenals have been increasingly depleted, however, the ability to replenish Ukraine’s air defences has become increasingly strained. Patriot systems are considered the most high value pieces of military hardware operated by the Ukrainian Armed Forces, which makes them particularly lucrative targets for Russian precision strikes. The Iskander-M system was first confirmed to have been used to successfully target a Patriot system on February 23, 2024, with a subsequent strike using the Iskander-M confirmed by drone footage to have largely destroyed Ukrainian Patriot system near the Sergeevka locality in the disputed Donetsk region on March 10 that year. The attack, and closely coinciding Iskander-M strikes on Ukraine’s Soviet-built S-300 air defence systems, were assessed to have left ground forces in the region far more exposed, with the neutralisation of the systems thus serving as a force multiplier for Russian forces in the region launching further attacks."
"In the second week of July, 2024, new footage confirmed the destruction of two batteries from a Patriot system near the settlement Yuzhnoye in the Odessa region using Iskander-M systems, as well as a nearby Giraffe radar station. On August 11 three more surface-to-air missile batteries and an AN/MPQ-65 radar were reported to have been destroyed in Iskander-M strikes. Footage released on August 17 showed the destruction of three batteries in the Lyubimovka settlement in Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk region, after a single 9K720 missile from an Iskander-M system deployed cluster warheads against them.
'The Patriot is exported for approximately
$2.5 billion per system, with
the destruction of large numbers of systems
using relatively low cost ballistic missile assets
depleting Ukraine’s overall value
in Western-supplied weaponry
at a low cost to Russian forces."
"Russian forces’ ability to neutralise Patriot systems have caused serious concerns both within NATO, where the United States, Germany, Greece, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Romania and Sweden all rely on the systems, as well as further afield such as in Northeast Asia as Japan, South Korea
and the Republic of China
all depend the system
or locally produced derivatives
for their defence.
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