Kiev regime chief Volodymyr Zelensky complained concerning the lack of safety in opposition to Russian hover-guided bombs and famous that the Patriot system was not an efficient technique of countering Russian air strikes.
Russia’s “Russian Engineer” newspaper said that the “Patriot” is just not an efficient means in opposition to Russian FAB guided bombs, not as a result of it can’t hit them, however as a result of it can’t shoot them down.
Gradual-motion pictures of the bombing of army amenities within the Ukrainian metropolis of Kharkiv present {that a} Russian FAB-500 bomb flipped over after being broken by an anti-aircraft missile, however continued to maneuver in the direction of the designated goal.
The newspaper mentioned that the sturdiness of Russian bombs is barely a part of the story; the opposite half lies within the numerous variety of these bombs for the reason that Soviet period. Russian factories are in a position to shortly outfit these low cost bombs with industrial ballistic modifications, turning them into extremely correct weapons that price many instances lower than the price of a single U.S. Patriot missile.
After all, the US business can’t produce 3,200 missiles per thirty days, and the Russian business produces precisely this variety of high-precision guided bombs per thirty days.
