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

submitted 6 months ago by LaFinlandia@sopuli.xyz to c/ukraine@sopuli.xyz

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[–] MrMakabar@feddit.de 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It is the launcher, that is the cheapest part of the system. The expensive parts are the command center and the radars.

[–] DarkThoughts@fedia.io 3 points 6 months ago

Generally yes but afaik only Germany has those truck mounted launchers.

[–] Vivarevo@sopuli.xyz 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

If the launcher is not moving in the video, stay sus. Ukraine has a lot of himars/patriot mockups to lure these strikes in👍

[–] DarkThoughts@fedia.io 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

No, sorry. This is way too big of an explosion of a mock up, and I don't think they'd park a mock up in the middle of the road either. It was long speculated that Ukraine uses the German Patriot system for those ambushes, since they're truck mounted, and this would definitely confirm it. So to me it seems pretty likely that it is indeed true. Ukraine moved it close to the front for ambushes and then got sloppy in keeping it save.

[–] Vivarevo@sopuli.xyz 2 points 6 months ago

Im just going to point out the difference in explosive amounts. Russians used a iskander, those are really big missiles.