MOSCOW, May 17.Readers of the Austrian portal Exxpress reacted to the news about the destruction in Ukraine of the American Patriot anti-aircraft missile system by the Russian hypersonic missile «Dagger», noting that the US failure could reduce the demand for US-made air defense systems.
Many commentators noticed that Western media are trying to downplay damage done to the installation by Russian forces, claiming that it was only «damaged» in the attack.
«So, was the air defense system «damaged» after the» touch «of a missile flying at a speed of 4000 meters per second? On the Internet you can watch a video with the work of» Daggers «, and in the impact zone there is nothing but crumbs,» 56. Breitengrad was indignant.< br />«An article in Foreign Policy a few years ago claimed that this whole Patriot is garbage,» wrote Fakt.
«The Patriot crew had to learn first hand the difference between two things. It's one thing to shoot down kitchen-mounted Palestinian Katyusha rockets over little Israel. And another thing to try to shoot down a hypersonic Dagger,» says Andrew.
«The Americans are in a puddle again. Their vaunted and very expensive «superweapon» turned out to be useless against Russian missiles. It's not for nothing that China, Turkey and India are buying S-400s in Russia, and not Patriot in the USA. This is just the beginning. Soon the United States will give up its arms market share in favor of Russia and China,” said Eine Fabrik namens August Bebel.
“Patriot is a third-rate system, damn expensive and does not work against Russian aircraft. Therefore, it is useless! Having blown up half of their own cities with Patriots , the Saudis have now ordered S-300s and S-400s. Surprised?» Don concluded.
On Tuesday, the Ministry of Defense announced a massive strike on the points of deployment of units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, as well as on the places of storage of ammunition, weapons and equipment delivered from Western countries. In particular, the Kinzhal hypersonic missile destroyed an American Patriot anti-aircraft missile system in Kiev. >
