Damaged Patriot system in Kyiv has been fixed, U.S. says

[speak easy]

The Patriot air-defense system damaged in Ukraine on Tuesday by a Russian strike has been fixed and is operational, Deputy Pentagon Spokeswoman Sabrina Singh said Thursday.

Singh added that the United States provided “some assistance” on the repair of the system, but declined to offer additional detail. A U.S. defense official had earlier said the system suffered an indirect hit from Russian fire in the Kyiv region

Since Tuesday, Ukrainian officials have steadfastly rejected Russia’s claims that it had destroyed one of the billion-dollar Patriot systems donated by the West.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/05/18/russia-ukraine-war-news/

[Mr.Bill]

1. With the amount of money we have invested

in Ukraine, it stands to reason that we have people on the ground over there.

[WarGamer]

2. Recently, Russians have been flying more sorties with ARM...

Anti-Radar missiles that track and target sources of radar, such as that used by the Patriot system to track targets.

So pretty easy to target them by flying targets out front with ARM behind them.

They can strike targets from 70 miles away.