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First Patriot Launcher (Likely Two) Destroyed By Russia -- In Donetsk | Suchomimus (youtu.be)

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[–] 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.