Three articles
in backwards chronological order:
Large Scale Russian Drone and Missile Attack
Destroys Three Patriot Missile Launchers and Radar:
militarywatchmagazine.com 7/21/25
"In the late hours of July 21, the Russian Armed Forces launched a large air assault on military and strategic targets in Ukraine, with Ukrainian government sources reporting the launch of 426 drones as well as ballistic and cruise missiles. The scale and frequency of these Russian attacks has continued to grow as the country’s defence sector has tremendously increased the production scales of Geran-2 single use drones and multiple classes of ballistic and cruise missile. Output of the Geran-2 was reported in May to have increased more than tenfold from 300 a month, to over 100 per day, with industry was reported at the time to be on track to be able to produce 500 daily, while output of missiles such as the Kh-101 and 9K720 has increased to several times pre-war levels. These attacks have coincided with a placing of growing pressure on Ukraine’s frontlines, as advancing Russian frontline units have been reinforced following the routing of a Ukrainian assault on Kursk, while the Ukrainian Army lost several of its most elite units and much of its most capable equipment during the failed incursion.
("the scale and frequency of these Russian attacks has continued to grow"
"These attacks have coincided with a placing of growing pressure on Ukraine’s frontlines"
What wasnt said is these types of attacks have "continued to grow" following
Ukraine's attack on Russia's strategic bomber fleet.
And?
Just gotta point out:
Friday, August 16, 2024
("It was their most daring and savage attack,
and it was also their undoing."
Comparing Quantrill's Raiders Lawrence Kansas raid
to the Ukrainian incursion into Russia.
"Ukraine cant hold its own lines. So it gonna hold territory in Russia? Doubtful, not with their manpower and supply issues. This is their "hey look at us were still relevant, please have your military industrial complex keep feeding us/don't forget about us with everything else that is going on in your world/ maybe we can get something out of it if we negotiate etc...moment.")
"Russian drone and missile strikes have been particularly devastating due to the severe depletion of Ukraine’s air defences, with the destruction of surface-to-air missile systems, and particularly the more capable S-300 and MIM-104 Patriot systems, serving as force multipliers in this regard. Reports from a number of Russian sources indicate that the latest wave of strikes targeted one of Ukraine’s few remaining Patriot systems, destroying three surface-to-air missile launchers and an associated AN/MPQ-65 radar. The location of the system in question, and the drone or missile classes used to destroy it, remain unknown, Patriot systems have taken significant losses since beginning to be used in Ukraine, with these having been confirmed by drone footage on multiple occasions from March 2024. As by far the most high value military assets in Ukrainian service, with a cost of approximately $2.5 billion, the loss of Patriot systems represents a severe blow to the country’s air defence capabilities, particularly at a time when the country’s supporters in the Western world are struggling with major shortages of the systems and unable to easily replace losses."
interceptors, launchers, complete units etc,
if the other team just keeps taking them out?
At 2.5 Billion a pop and:
supporters in the Western world
are struggling with major shortages
of the systems and unable
to easily replace losses."
The only people benefiting from any of this
are the manufacturers of the systems
and they cant make em fast enough
at the rate they are being destroyed.)
"Ukrainian and Western sources have recently warned that the Patriot is increasingly struggling to intercept strikes by Russian ballistic missiles, highlighting that the missiles have demonstrated greater levels of manoeuvrability, allowing them to evade not only interception, but also detection. Such reports are far from unprecedented, with Ukrainian Air Force spokesman Igor Ignat having highlighted on May 26 the Patriot’s shortcomings intercepting attacks by the Russian Iskander-M ballistic missile system observing: “The Iskander missiles perform evasive manoeuvres in the final phase, thwarting the Patriot’s trajectory calculations… In addition, the Iskander can drop decoys capable of fooling Patriot missiles.” The Russian Armed Forces’ procurement of North Korean ballistic missiles with similarly advanced capabilities, such as the KN-23B, has further increased pressure on Ukraine’s defences, as has the dispatch of tens of thousands of North Korean workers to support efforts to increase drone production in Russia."
Ukrainian and Western Officials Question
Patriot Air Defences’ Reliability
Against Improved Russian Missiles
militarywatchmagazine.com 07/20/25
(Some of us have been questioning it since the first Gulf war.
"In response to the testimonies and other evidence, the staff of the House Government Operations Subcommittee on Legislation and National Security reported, "The Patriot missile system was not the spectacular success in the Persian Gulf War (1st one) that the American public was led to believe. There is little evidence to prove that the Patriot hit more than a few Scud missiles launched by Iraq during the Gulf War, and there are some doubts about even these engagements. The public and the United States Congress were misled by definitive statements of success issued by administration and Raytheon representatives during and after the war."
(It's gotten a lot better since that time, but its still not the success that most think it is, and even with the improvements? Our adversaries have missiles that will take em out, so what do they matter? Also? Every time a European country donates one of these systems to Ukraine? They weaken their own air-defense systems, kinda seems to be the point, "You keep sending them and we will keep destroying them" making the entire European continent more vunerable to air attack from Russian missiles.)
"Speaking to the Wall Street Journal, Ukrainian and Western sources have warned that U.S.-made MIM-104 Patriot long range air defence systems are increasingly struggling to intercept strikes by Russian ballistic missiles, raising questions regarding the practicality of future donations of these systems as aid. One unnamed Ukrainian official informed the outlet that Russian ballistic missiles have demonstrated greater levels of manoeuvrability, allowing them to evade not only interception, but also detection. Although he did not specify the missile class in question, it is likely to be the 9K720 launched by the Iskander-M system, which has been used successfully to neutralise Patriot systems multiple times since March 2024. These reports are far from unprecedented, with Ukrainian Air Force spokesman Igor Ignat having highlighted on May 26 the system’s shortcomings intercepting attacks by the system observing: “The Iskander missiles perform evasive manoeuvres in the final phase, thwarting the Patriot’s trajectory calculations… In addition, the Iskander can drop decoys capable of fooling Patriot missiles.”
"On July 14 U.S. President Donald Trump pledged to dispatch further Patriot systems to Ukraine, with the president subsequently elaborating that up to 17 systems could be sent. Although severe shortages of Patriot systems in the United States and the exhaustion of European arsenals were previously expected to ensure that no major deliveries to Ukraine would be possible for the foreseeable future, the president raised the possibility that a European client, such as Switzerland, could agree to have its supplies delayed to allow deliveries to reach Ukraine faster. The Patriot is by far the highest value military asset in Ukrainian service, with each costing $2.5 billion. The cost effectiveness of sending the systems has increasingly been brought to question due to both its high vulnerability, and to the far higher cost of launching $4 million surface-to-air missiles to intercept Russian ballistic missiles that cost under $1 million. The fact that two interceptors are usually fired to intercept a single missile makes the cost effectiveness calculation appear particularly unfavourable, even if the system could be used to intercept the targets reliably."
"The Patriot was first confirmed
Russian Forces Take Out U.S.-Supplied Patriot Missile System in Ukraine:
02/23/24
to have seen a unit destroyed by an Iskander-M system on February 23, 2024, with a subsequent strike destroying another system near the Sergeevka locality the following month on March 10, leaving ground forces in the region exposed. Subsequently in the second week of July, 2024, new footage confirmed the destruction of two batteries in the Odessa region, while on August 11 three more launchers and an AN/MPQ-65 radar were reported to have been destroyed in Iskander-M strikes. Further successes for the Iskander-M have continued to follow.
(Thats 7 x 2.5 Billion.
Thats 17.5 billion $ of our tax $'s.
There are one thousand millions in a billion.
So thats 17,500 millions down the drain.
We cant make them fast enough,
nor can we afford to.
Almost like our adversaries knew that or something before launching their
"Special Military Operation".
Putin had everything ready to launch his "SVO" and before he did?
He said we need to get together and discuss
a new security architecture for Europe.
We laughed at him.
We aint laughing anymore.
"thats 17,500 millions down the drain"
and thats just the patriots.
What would have been the harm in talking?
I personally knew it was a mistake not to engage with him
because I knew he had weapons
we simply don't have any defense for.
Like usual, people were laughing at me for saying as much.
They aint laughing now.)
Despite its limitations, Ukraine’s supporters in the Western world have had few alternatives to supplying the system other than to leave the Eastern European state totally exposed to Russian strikes, with the decision to send Patriot systems having been made in late 2022 after the country’s large arsenal of Soviet S-300 air defence systems was very heavily depleted during hostilities with Russian forces. Russian successes in significantly expanding the scale of Iskander-M production has further exacerbated the situation for Ukrainian air defences, as has the Russian Armed Forces’ procurement of North Korean ballistic missiles with similarly advanced capabilities such as the KN-23B."
Pentagon Confirms Patriot Air Defences
Failed to Prevent Iranian Missile Strike on Key Airbase
07/11/25
"The Pentagon has confirmed that an Iranian ballistic missile successfully struck Al Udeid Airbase in Qatar during an attack on June 23, contrasting with defence officials prior praise for the success of U.S. Army and Qatari Air Force MIM-104 Patriot air defence systems in protecting the facility. “One Iranian ballistic missile impacted Al Udeid Airbase June 23 while the remainder of the missiles were intercepted by U.S. and Qatari air defence systems,” Pentagon chief spokesman Sean Parnell stated, although Iran’s provision of early warning of the attack ensured there were no casualties. Satellite footage appears to show the destruction of a radome that housing the modernisation enterprise terminal communications suite, which has a value of approximately $15 million. The primary cost of the attack, however, is from the launch of close to two dozen Patriot interceptors to target the incoming missiles, as this interceptors cost approximately $4 million each."
(Nobody is telling you:
The Qatari's fired 200 patriot interceptors
at 20 Iraianian missiles.
Qatar tells of huge cost of Iranian missile attack
The National (UAE)
06/30/25
"Qatar deployed three Patriot air defence batteries in two locations and more than 200 missiles to down all but one of 20 missiles fired on the night of Monday, June 23, said Mr Al Ansari, who is also adviser to Qatar’s Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani."
Think that wasnt by design?
Knowing we were short on them already?
"Iran’s provision of early warning of the attack
ensured there were no casualties."
It also insured the Qataris could get ready to blow through
$800 million worth of interceptors.
"Go ahead and get em out of storage guys.
Were gonna give you an excuse to use em."
Thats difficult to understand?
The Qataris are not our friends
any more than the Saudis are.
They really are not.
Also?
That base is used as a forward operating location for CENTCOM.
Communications for the US military in the region
were severely degraded.
That Iranian attack was on June 23rd.
On 24 June, Israel and Iran agreed to a ceasefire.
To think those two events are not related
is a mistake.)
Maranatha Lord Jesus.
The willful ignorance of people
is just suffocating
the life out of me
these days.
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