The capability gap.
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@jmaris
I thought patriots shooting down Shaheds was a rare event, and most of Shaheds are being shot down by fighter jets? -
@jmaris Shaheds (~10k) are able to take down patriot missiles (~3000k) is closer to reality.
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@jmaris
I thought patriots shooting down Shaheds was a rare event, and most of Shaheds are being shot down by fighter jets?@wolf480pl @jmaris in Ukraine, yes. They can't afford to waste patriots for shaheds.
(Ukraine used less patriots in 3 years than the US in 3 days. Imagine what Ukraine could have done with those patriots instead) -
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@wolf480pl @jmaris in Ukraine, yes. They can't afford to waste patriots for shaheds.
(Ukraine used less patriots in 3 years than the US in 3 days. Imagine what Ukraine could have done with those patriots instead)@Schafstelze @wolf480pl @jmaris
«They can't afford to waste patriots for shaheds.»
No wonder they can't, the Patriots has not ever been «on sale» at the DumpShop! 
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@jmaris asymmetrical warfare is warfare
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@wolf480pl @jmaris in Ukraine, yes. They can't afford to waste patriots for shaheds.
(Ukraine used less patriots in 3 years than the US in 3 days. Imagine what Ukraine could have done with those patriots instead)@Schafstelze @jmaris
no I also mean in the Persian GulfUSA does not even have enough patriots missile in stockpile to shoot one shahed with one patriot missile.
And it still needs to keep most of those missiles for a potential war with China.
And a patriot battery usually fires at least two missiles in parallel at any single target.
If money was the problem, USA could be shooting down shaheds with patriots and win. But the problem is production rate.
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@jmaris Yup!
Video proof:
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@Schafstelze @jmaris
no I also mean in the Persian GulfUSA does not even have enough patriots missile in stockpile to shoot one shahed with one patriot missile.
And it still needs to keep most of those missiles for a potential war with China.
And a patriot battery usually fires at least two missiles in parallel at any single target.
If money was the problem, USA could be shooting down shaheds with patriots and win. But the problem is production rate.
@wolf480pl @jmaris The US wasted 800 Patriots within three days. But as Trump said, they don't need help from Ukraine...
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@wolf480pl @jmaris The US wasted 800 Patriots within three days. But as Trump said, they don't need help from Ukraine...
@Schafstelze @jmaris
Iran fired 1000+ shaheds in the first 3 days of the war, and ~400 ballistic missiles.I'm guessing most of these patriots were used against ballistic missiles.
Still, that's an insanely high number of patriots and I'm worried about US's stockpile now...
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The USA never learned anything from Vietnam.
"A spear. A goddam spear."
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