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The German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius will discuss the possibility of Germany paying for American Patriot Air Defense systems for Ukraine, while heading to Washington to meet with the Secretary of Defense of the United States, Pete Hegseth.
On Sunday, the president of the United States, Donald Trump, said that the United States would send an unleashed number of patriots to Ukraine, and that the European Union would pay for them.
The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, has asked for more defensive abilities, including patriotic systems and missiles, to defend against the daily missile and drones attacks of Russia.
Here is key information about the patriot:
The Patriot, abbreviation of the Radar of Matrices in the Intercept Phase in the objective, is a mobile air missile defense system developed by Raytheon Technologies RTX.N.
It is considered one of the most advanced air defense systems in the United States Arsenal and has been in service since the 1980s.
A typical battery includes radar and control systems, a power unit, pitchers and support vehicles. The system can intercept airplanes, tactical ballistic missiles and cruise missiles, depending on the interceptor used.
How does the patriot work?
The system has different capacities depending on the type of interceptor used.
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The previous PAC-2 interceptor uses an explosion fragmentation head that detonates in the neighborhood of an objective, while the PAC-3 missile family uses more precise technology that reaches the objective directly.
It is not clear what kind of patriotic systems have been donated to Ukraine, but kyiv is likely to have at least some of the new PAC-3 CRI interceptors.
The radar of the system has a range of more than 150 km (93 miles), said the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in 2015.
Although the patriot was not originally designed to intercept hypersonic weapons and Raytheon has not yet confirmed whether he is able to do so, in May 2023 the United States confirmed that Ukraine had used it to tear down a Russian Kinzhal missile, what Moscow is hypersonic.
Since January 2015, Patriot has intercepted more than 150 ballistic missiles in combat operations, says Raytheon on its website.
Raytheon has built and delivered more than 240 patriot fire units, according to its website.
These have been sent to 19 countries, according to Raytheon, including the United States, Germany, Poland, Ukraine, Japan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Egypt.
In January, Axios reported that the United States had transferred about 90 patriotic interceptors from Israel to Ukraine.
A new Patriot Patriot battery costs more than US $ 1 billion, including US $ 400 million for the system and $ 690 million for missiles in a battery, according to the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
Patriots interceptors are estimated at around US $ 4 million per missile, says CSIS.
Why do Ukraine want more patriots?
kyiv has constantly asked the most aerial western allies that protect the critical infrastructure and civil areas of frequent attacks on Russian missiles and drones.
While it is effective to intercept missiles and airplanes, patriots are a expensive way of demolishing low -budget drones.
Even so, Ukrainian officials say they are essential to defend the key objectives of Russia’s long -range attacks.
Russia says it sees the Patriots as a direct escalation. The spokeswoman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Maria Zakharova, said in May that the supply of more systems to Ukraine would delay the possibilities of peace.
–Reports from Isabel Demetz and Jesús Calero; Matt Scffham edition
