Anonymous source in Pentagon leaking to one of the US papers, I am not going to watch 2 hours video to find which.
If your only source is some propagandist youtube video, it's probably bullshit. Like so many other claims you've made in these forums based on nothing but the same shit-for-brains youtubers.
32 sounds more likely than 30, given that PAC-3 batteries come in multiples of 16 (but that's neither here nor there). The cost to shoot down Russian missiles is great, but it would be even greater cost to let them hit hospitals, apartment buildings, power infrastructure and so on. The fact that there were no civilian casualties is a success in my book.
Cut the crap out. Russiand do not spend 1000 kinzhals to hit apartment buildings.
Only because Russia doesn't seem to have 1000s of Kinzhals. But they do have plenty of other kinds of missiles. And all you need to do is watch the news to see that not a week goes by
without at least a few civilian casualties in Odessa, Kharkiv, Mykolaiv, Vinnytsia, Zaporizhzhia etc.
And right now it seems even the one missile that got through was a miss, because it did not do any permanent damage.
Source?
Don't bother, I know - Ukraine.
No, it's several US officials to CNN.
The damage to a Patriot air defense system following a Russian missile attack near Kyiv on Tuesday morning is minimal, three US officials tell CNN, with one official describing it as “minor” damage.
The US sent inspectors to examine the system on Tuesday after being told by Ukrainian forces that the system appeared to have been damaged, one official said.
The system itself is still operational, the officials said, and the radar component of the Patriot, one of its most important elements, was not damaged. US officials do not believe the Patriot will need to be removed from the battlefield for repairs.
Two components of the system were damaged, according to a US official familiar with the matter, but the system “was never offline” and remained functional throughout the attack, they said.
Say what you want about CNN and Americans being liars, but they're still 1000 times more trustworthy than the Russian MoD or Kremlin's youtube trolls. And like I said in the previous post, the real test was that Russia wasn't able to do any more damage to Kyiv in yesterday's missile barrage: there's no evidence of Patriot being offline.
Reality is, US was not willing to give Patriot to Ukraine because they knew it would get destroyed and it would hurt its image and sales.
But when it became so bad that US had no choice but to give it to them. With one condition though - to make it look good and lie if necessary. And this is what ukrainians do - lie.
They lie much less than Russia. Of course claims about numbers especially should be taken with a grain of salt. But we know that at least one Kinzhal may have been shot down, if there's one, then it's not a stretch to think it could be six. And it doesn't really matter what the numbers are. The real surprise was that previously a weapon that was thought to be impossible to be shot down, was show down.
Patriot has no chance against kinzhals, period. That's what Pentagon was saying. It relies on target being purely ballistic or slow.
Kinzhal is neither.
Bollocks. All missile defense systems are to some extent statistical. An inferior system can shoot down a more advanced missile under good conditions. I would argue that the
ideal conditions for shooting down a hypersonic missile is if it's coming straight towards you, which negates most of the speed advantage.
And this is considering Russia's "hypersonic" missiles were ever actually as good as advertised. They've never been used in combat before, and if they were so good, they would have been used more extensively in the past year. This means either they're crap, or Russia doesn't have very many of them.
As for the video with 30 launches. Gestapo is running around Kiev and taking cameras down
Why wouldn't they? There's no point helping the enemy confirm if they managed to hit anything at all.
Btw, if it was 30 launches on the video, and not full 32, that means there were two missiles left to spare, and it would confirm that Patriot hit every target and the explosion was just debris.
