Aerial footage captures the moment two US-made truck-mounted quad-launchers for the Patriot surface-to-air missile systems are destroyed by a Russian hypersonic Iskander missile. This is believed to be the first video-confirmed destruction of the Patriot complex displayed by Ukraine, costing $400 million per system and up to $6 million per missile.
Dramatic aerial footage reportedly shows the moment two US-made truck-mounted quad-launchers for the Patriot surface-to-air missile systems are destroyed.The Russia ns have called it the first video-confirmed destruction of the Patriot complex displayed by Ukraine . Each system is believed to cost $400million, while missiles can cost up to $6million each.
Ukraine only had five of the Patriot systems before this strike, and each battery, with missiles included, cost around a billion dollars each The system has proved effective against the hypersonic Iskander missile, but it was an Iskander that hit the Patriot complex and its support vehicles here. Loyalist pro-war channel Military Informant called it 'the first confirmation of the destruction of two American MIM-104 Patriot air defence systems'.
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