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| | *''[[Responsible Statecraft]]'': [https://responsiblestatecraft.org/patriot-missile-system-ukraine/ Ukraine wants to make its own Patriot missiles. That's a bad idea.] | | *''[[Responsible Statecraft]]'': [https://responsiblestatecraft.org/patriot-missile-system-ukraine/ Ukraine wants to make its own Patriot missiles. That's a bad idea.] |
| | :*[https://youtu.be/2owXYuVwC0k PATRIOT MISSILES FAIL MISERABLY, Here's the Video Evidence] /[[MIT]] [[Prof Ted Postol]], [[Daniel Davis]] / Deep Dive | | :*[https://youtu.be/2owXYuVwC0k PATRIOT MISSILES FAIL MISERABLY, Here's the Video Evidence] /[[MIT]] [[Prof Ted Postol]], [[Daniel Davis]] / Deep Dive |
| | + | ::Despite [[PR]] damage control that says the [[Patriot missile]] system has a 90% interception rate, [[Prof. Ted Postol]], who helped design the system, says the interception rate is more like 2%. Nevertheless, [[Lockheed Martin]] was recently given another $5 Billion contract to build more. |
| | + | {{Cquote|This system is not working at all. But they'll be happy to sell it to you, to the [[American]] [[people]]. And they'll also be happy to jeopardize, ''let me underscore this, which makes me furious beyond stealing from the American people'', jeopardize the future [[security]] of our country. Because if there's a problem with this system, we need to try to make planning adjustments, and [[strategy]] adjustments, and [[tactical]] adjustments as best we can to deal with this incredible shortfall. I'm not sure what those adjustments have to be, but I can tell you making believe that you're intercepting these things when the threat is only going to get bigger and more capable is really a bad choice for planning your [[national security]].|||Ted Postol}} |
| | ::*[[Simplicius]]: [https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/ukrainian-authorities-panic-as-patriots Ukrainian Authorities Panic as Patriots Run Out Amidst Russian Ballistic Frenzy]. | | ::*[[Simplicius]]: [https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/ukrainian-authorities-panic-as-patriots Ukrainian Authorities Panic as Patriots Run Out Amidst Russian Ballistic Frenzy]. |
| | :::"Even the [[Ukrainian]]s had to admit not a single one was shot down because [[Patriot missile]] stocks have run dry: Ukraine 🇺🇦 did not intercept a single one of the 23 [[Iskander]] [[ballistic missile]]s fired at [[Kyiv]] tonight because it ran out of PAC-3 interceptors..." | | :::"Even the [[Ukrainian]]s had to admit not a single one was shot down because [[Patriot missile]] stocks have run dry: Ukraine 🇺🇦 did not intercept a single one of the 23 [[Iskander]] [[ballistic missile]]s fired at [[Kyiv]] tonight because it ran out of PAC-3 interceptors..." |