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First Patriot Launcher (Likely Two) Destroyed By Russia -- In Donetsk | Suchomimus (youtu.be)
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[–] Hasuris@sopuli.xyz 11 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I've red patriot is a "billion dollar system". Losing these hurts a lot. I don't know if Germany has a lot of these launchers. The mobile launchers are from Germany I believe.

[–] mea_rah@lemmy.world 11 points 8 months ago

Patriot is billion dollar system, but that's entire system with the destroyed launcher being the cheaper part. (IIRC there are 6 launchers in single system)

The main issue is that there's limited amount of the mobile launchers available as Patriot was built primarily as static AA defense.

[–] DarkThoughts@fedia.io 7 points 8 months ago

Correct. MAN is a German company that makes trucks & busses and unlike the US, Germany has truck mounted Patriots. This was long speculated to be the tactic Ukraine used for those ambushes, so unfortunately I would suspect this loss to be true and probably harder to replace.