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The Pentagon announced the return to service of the damaged Patriot system in Ukraine

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The Pentagon said that the damaged Patriot system was repaired and put back into operation in UkraineThe Patriot anti-aircraft missile system damaged in Ukraine as a result of a Russian strike has been restored.

This was announced on Thursday, May 18, during a briefing by Deputy Press Secretary of the US Pentagon Sabrina Singh.

"The Patriot system damaged in Ukraine has been repaired and is in working condition," The Washington Post reports her words.

On May 16, the American Patriot complex was hit by a high-precision strike of the Kinzhal hypersonic missile system in Kiev. Then footage of a night strike on the American complex appeared on the Network.


At the same time, the official representative of the Ukrainian Air Force, Yuriy Ignat, said that the Patriot air defense system allegedly retained all its functions.

As military expert Alexey Leonkov told Izvestia, the Russian army used the tactics of the 1990s when eliminating the anti-aircraft complex: first, the rocket men forced Patriot to give out its location, awakening the system, after which it was hit. Thus, the Patriot radar station identified the "Dagger" only when a hypersonic projectile was approaching, which the American installation failed to shoot down even after 32 projectiles worth $4 million each.

To date, Patriot is considered the most modern medium-range missile defense system that the West has at its disposal.


Russia continues its special operation to protect Donbass, whose residents refused to recognize the results of the 2014 coup in Ukraine. The decision to start it was made on February 24, 2022 against the background of the aggravation of the situation in the region due to the shelling of Ukrainian troops.

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