• Hasuris
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    8 months ago

    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.

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      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.

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      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.