Patriot missiles shot Down 6 hypersonic missiles?? Really?
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Would like some commentary on Ukraine shooting Down not one hypersonic missile but six!! Is the patriot system capable of doing this or is this just hyperbole propaganda? Me thinks this was just a plan by Russia to get Ukraine to use up as many Patriot missiles as possible. Then get a line on where to target to take out the patriot system. Thoughts?
Not with any land-based systems. The best we can do is with the THAAD system, which is good against IRBMs, and is comparable to Standard 3 (which cannot intercept ICBMs). Fully-fledged ICBMs have terminal velocities closer to Mach 25. (The first half of my career was working strategic defense. The Standard 3 kinetic kill warhead is a derivative of a concept first developed at Boeing in the early 1980s. The last ground-based anti-ICBM system was Safeguard, which was canceled in 1969.)