This was my job in the Army. I was a 14E, Patriot Missile Operator. 😀 happy yall did this

@jimwhite7607

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Thank you for your service sir

@516Mel

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Thanks for your service 🇺🇸 🤝

@darksydedigital

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I was a 14T myself. Suwon/Osan 98-99 and then back to Bliss 5/52 till I got out.

@MrBearTastic915

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@@darksydedigital greetings from el paso

@darksydedigital

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@@MrBearTastic915 I haven't been there since 02 but there are times I want to go back and see it. I actually really liked it down there.

If it misses, it detonates. The US also has an anti missile machine gun that the bullets explode after a certain distance to minimize ground damage.

USA tech is unmatched it's really insane when u see it all come together.

Hey Daz to answer your question at the end there, the radar system has gotten even better since I was a Patriot Missile System Operator and Maintainer 14T back in the late 90's and early 2000's and even back then it was a pretty good tracking system. Also as a contingency the firing system has a a few protocols built in so if it detects something like a SCUD missile for example it would automatically fire 2 Patriots in response to hit it as a redundancy. SO in that situation if they were trying to stack 2 missiles in a close group together and IF somehow the radar and tracking systems didn't recognize it the second already in flight missile would have a chance to intercept it without a necessary need to fire off another volley of missiles.

My son is a 14E at Ft.Bliss Texas gonna share this to him lol 😂, awesome video blokes

14T here, Patriot Missile Enhanced Operator / Maintainer love seein folks learn about Patriot lol, awesome system

So, there's "hit to kill" which is just what it sounds like, kinetic kill, and then there's fused or proximity kill. For aircraft, you'll often want a proximity; you get lots of fragmentation kills on aircraft. ABMs, Artillery rounds, mortars, cruise missiles, things like that, you'd want a kinetic kill, so that the total energy involved destroys the target completely. We had that problem in the Gulf War- when a PAC-2 hit a SCUD, it didn't destroy it, and the chunks that were left over were big enough to cause damage and take lives. I'll never forget watching them arc into the sky. Them, and HAWKs, were the coolest systems.

If you miss, the target is already in terminal velocity. Even if you could turn around the Patriot missile, it's not going to catch up to the inbound warhead.

I was deployed during second Gulf War one of the scariest things was when the patriot missiles hit there target, you had to watch out for the falling debris

The current interceptor missile for the Patriot system costs approximately $4 million per round and the launchers cost about $10 million each,

UK definitely needs Patriot batteries🇺🇸❤️🇬🇧

No missile defense system is going to have a 100% hit rate, but for every one from an enemy that hits, a lot more will return the favor. (Remember: All missiles used so far have been conventional; no one wants to go nuclear.)

@LancerX916

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Yeah, like in Ukraine, even though some drones are getting through It's something like 1 in ever 40. Those 39 other drones are being shot down by anti drone and missile defense systems in place.

@grilledlettuce1845

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@@LancerX916 that sounds not too bad. Easier said than done when you think sitting in your trench and *BOOM* fuck man even normal drones are scary now thanks to Ukraine war

Ehh if I remember right, it’s something like 20-30 mins for an ICBM to hit its target, roughly. At least for the newest, best variants, the older type slightly longer by a few minutes, as slower to accelerate of not upgraded in the engines. And with o it satellites…we know the instant someone lights off an engine capable of ICBM range, that’s a huge signature. Our anti sub sensors, on the bottom of the ocean, during the Cold War could and did detect and track soviet bombers, haha. So yeah, we are kinda advanced when it comes to all things military.

When they say 'hit to kill' they mean the patriot missile actually hits the incoming missile to kill it, not getting near it and exploding.

Dude Nukes from Russia have been able to hit anywhere in America and vice versa since like the 1960s.

@SilvanaDil

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The Russians on (esp. on state TV) seem to forget that nukes are a two-way street. Heck, they weren't even the first to have them.

@darksydedigital

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Hell the US's current set of Minuteman ICBM's have the range to completely circumnavigate the globe once, passing their launch site, and then hitting a target hundreds of miles past that.

@dudermcdudeface3674

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@@SilvanaDil We're still screwed if we have to demonstrate that. The only purpose of these rockets is to never be used.

@Kenneth_James

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@@darksydedigital I never quite understood that if the range is 8,000 miles how are they circumnavigating the globe several times? I'm sure the range is higher than that today but the Earth is like I forget 17 or 18,000 miles. I used that distance finder and are icbms in Montana North Dakota and Wyoming can hit everywhere except south southern African countries

@Kenneth_James

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@@dudermcdudeface3674 we're not as screwed as you think. Nuclear is a boogeyman but it's not quite the Godzilla monster Boogeyman that they have been made out to be. They don't just flood massive radiation everywhere. It's not like we are going to detonate them on the ground and throw up massive irradiated amounts of soil. There's a reason that they use air burst. If using them was certain death and such a massive problem why exactly were we doing hundreds of massive tests in the atmosphere and outside of it?

The UAF captured that guy who threw the drone grenade, there is an interview video of him.. Slava Ukraini

Patriot missiles saved my life many times in the Gulf War, taking down Scud missiles.

@pathrender

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Thank you for your service! My father was in the navy during the gulf war. He was a nuclear reactor operator on the USS mississippi and USS Shenandoah

the Satan 2 is a nuclear missle

@kevinsierra482

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MIRV, though the MIRV like the LGM 118 Peacekeeper has been around for a while, russians finally were able to get one, assuming it works. I remember seeing multiple nuclear intelligence gathering intel planes from the states in international waters off the coast of russia to monitor the test

@1980bcman

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@@kevinsierra482 the United States has had mirv's since the 1960s. I didn't realize Russia was so far behind us I thought they always had them

It's a very capable defense system.

There are different types of missile defense systems made by the US to address different types of threats. Patriot was the first kind. There's also Aegis, THAAD, GMD....

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I do know that Ukraine has been trying to get these missiles from the United States and I think they were just granted, I’m not sure if it’s this exact version of the patriot or not but they’ve been talking patriot missiles.

It’s just a big version of a manpad no? It need batteries and argon gas but these new one seem to be guided bye SAR or but really good algorithm

They sent one to Ukraine. But it takes time for training. So it won’t be ready maybe a few months. It’s a lot to learn. A lot of computer stuff. Has its own batter and satellite system. I believe it’s in 4 different units for one patriot system.

Much like OB Daz, this vid almost put me to 😴

@jchristif

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Same. I typically find military videos interesting but the guy who narrated this one was boring

Well, some of them, are kinetic kill vehicles, so yes, they actually fly into the incoming missile/warhead, turns out incoming ballistic warheads are tough and hard to kill, so yeah, depending on the variant, it hits that small target, directly with a closing speed of Mach 6-7 plus. And we’ve been able to do that. To some success and only getting getting better and better for decades now. Some people talk shot on the gen 1 patriots, and how they missed some scuds. Well, no one else a system near as good, and was willing to use it in a war, lol. Literally no one. Still no one comes close to touching us in anti ballistic missile systems, unless they buy ours. Sure some purely anti air systems are possibly better, against slow moving targets (jets) and missile swarms, but don’t worry we got stuff for that too, lol. These systems are stupidly advanced, especially considering first designed in 69-70. You guys should do the vids on THAADS and AEGIS. Not too long ago, the navy tested an anti satellite missile fired from a destroyer, and the Air Force tested a jet launched anti satellite missile both worked. Hit and killed a satellite…was publicly released info. So yeah, when a ship, the smallest warship class, can now kill satellites…and fighters also…a whole new game. Our new premier air to air missile is a game changer too, for range, accuracy, capabilities. AIM-260 is crazy. Hell the semi recent AIM-120D is a game changer, and will soon be mostly replaced by the 260. The short range, AIM-9X is insane, the new short range, heater for dog fights. All of these systems are top of line, tested out, and actually work, will be/are being mass produced and fielded. And leaps ahead of any other current technology, that is useable and field able enmasse. And our current best ones started development in the late 60’s/early 70’s…and are the class of the world…the new ones being adopted likely started 20 years or so later. Which means we’re a decade or more, roughly into the new, even more insane systems, development cycle. We just unveiled the first 6th gen aircraft, bomber. The B-21 Raider. We have stealth cruise missiles, lol. Cause that far ahead. We can and do make stealth cruise missiles now. Something designed to fly into a target and explode, we make stealth, so they don’t it’s coming, or by the time they do know…it’s far too late to stop them.

Aww poor Dave. They always give you so much crap

I want to visit Daz on "Miss Isle".

Oh, if a Patriot misses, that’s a really big if, mind you, it can’t do anything, the closing speed is far too high for it to do anything. But try to hit a follow target just coming into range.

You need to consider rouge missiles from countries like NorthKorea or Iran vs an all out assault by Russia.

If you want you can react to HIMARS

That Russian missile, Zircon hypersonic missiles they say, is still unproven.

'They' [non-military] say that a standard ICBM, intercontinental missile, might take around 30 minutes between US and Russia, a hypersonic one might be 15-20 minutes; those maybe the shortest distance option. But that is why there has been a missile defense alert system since the 1960's. NORAD originally used monitoring stations along the DEW line running across US and Canada and Greenland, and a few satellites. Think they now rely on satellites only, as there is more and varied data. Russia has a similar system. It is best if Patriot upgrades could intercept at greater distance. The original concept , as you probably know, was Mutually Assured Distruction - which really isn't viable for life. Except maybe for the cockroaches.

Speaking of drones dropping hand grenades. Saw a ukie one drop 1 nade into a foxhole, blows a Russian guy's leg off. Sits there for a bit then just takes his service AK and suck starts it right there. Almost felt bad for the Russians that time. War is hell no matter how technology advanced or rudimentary it is.

Of Russia or any one sent a measly 20 missiles at us, we’d have good practice on 20, that just happened to be real, but still just target practice. We’d seat all of them, out of the sky. Just two batteries at minimum could handle that, depending on missile type, and that’s not counting the AEGIS and THAADS which are longer range, and equally, or more capable.

It's cool that we have those, but IMO the video was a tad long🤣Those of us with short attention spans😇

Daz looks tired...

@Vendrix86

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bored more like

Funny story a out hypersonic missiles... they claim to go over Mach 5, and Russia claims Mach 24 outside the atmosphere. However they all have to slow down upon their final descent as going so fast creates a layer of plasma around the missile which blocks any signal or connectivity to it during that time... they ultimately end up hitting their target at essentially the same speeds as supersonic basic missiles do. Their only real benefit is maneuverability during early and midway travel of its flight, but defense systems would not fire until the very end of their travel anyway. They are far more useful for intimidation than actual service

@faizalbarkah2617

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Bruh Russian hypersonic missile footage show how small the impact is for hypersonic missile. If they indeed travel in mach 24 the kinetic energy would be larger. And also if they slow down in the end, you still need large amount of explosive to make it worth

@seanwallace89

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@@faizalbarkah2617 that was my point man. They are mostly hype

@SilvanaDil

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@@seanwallace89 - Indeed. And far too expensive for Russia to afford more than a token number.

Gotta check out the fat electrician he does 3-6min videos on mostly the American military

Interesting is, what about the weapons system that america is not talking about, if the patriot is here in youtube to see, then USA has a far more better missile defense that is secret

That narrators voice gets irritating quite quickly.

Everytime Dave touches the mic I can hear it in my headphones. I wish he would stop. Give him a fidget spinner or something.

it would be interesting to see what would happen if putin shot a missles at us lol no more russia 🤣

S400 defense system pretty bad ass You don’t take lightly

These are really only helpful in short range. There's tons of articles talking about how they only hit their target between 25-50% of the time depending on the ordinance.

@darksydedigital

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That was on the older THAAD system, because it was essentially a flying claymore mine that exploded near the target throwing off shrapnel in hopes of A) destroying the entire thing (best case) B) destroying the warhead and the target missiles propulsion falls to the earth with little fanfare or C) knock it off course and hope it lands somewhere remote (least best case scenario). But with the new Pac 3 missiles being a point on contact missile its success rate increased immensely. Is it perfect? No of course not, but it's better thannot having it too.

@willvr4

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@@darksydedigital Why don't we just get some frickin' sharks with frickin' laser beams?

@mobiusflammel9372

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That may have been a stat largely based off of the performance in desert storm, where it was asked to shoot down SCUD missiles, and it mostly failed because it hadn’t been designed for that. Pac-3 addressed the need to shoot down missiles, but I don’t know how high its accuracy is.

@willvr4

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@@mobiusflammel9372 The fact that the stats are all over the place and have been changed (admittedly) by the military before, makes me think they aren't all that affective. Better than nothing? Absolutely. But that's about it.

@itsahellofaname

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@@mobiusflammel9372 In the Gulf War we were attacked numerous times by SCUD missiles, and the Patriots took them out every time, so this "25-50%" rate is questionable, at least to me.

I prefer freedom missiles over Patriot missiles 😂

Risking WWIII to fund defense contractors doesn’t seem like something that we should be engaging in.🤷🏻‍♂️

The problem with these systems is you need a whole unit of engineers just for maintenance and running them. They essentially become useless if you don’t have the whole team to accompany it.

@TheRealAb216

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worked pretty well protecting me in 2003

@lao5610

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@@TheRealAb216 Lucky for you, they were run by units who had been trained on them for months. It’s gonna take a while for the ones we gave Ukraine to actually take effect because they gotta train up on them.

@user-lf7nf3kl7t

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@@lao5610 Just like every other proxy war we are involved in, I'm sure we have many of our military fighting under a foreign flag and uniform. Special forces or CIA ops.

@kevinsierra482

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@@user-lf7nf3kl7t adversaries are doing the same shit the US is with proxy wars

@lao5610

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@@user-lf7nf3kl7t definitely not. I’m sure they have personnel giving instructions to Ukrainian intelligence behind the line, there is zero chance they would risk war and likely placed their units miles behind the lines or in major cities just giving instructions .

S-400 says "Hello!"

M143 HIMARS was responsible for hitting that Ukrainian college.

The patriot is old technology It uses the standard military frequency They use SAR to elevate the frequency of the radar which creates heat then its location can be found. When you do this every location of a patriot battery can be seen through out the region like the middle east. The Russians have a System called Kondor which does this. The patriot isn't intended to destroy low level slow moving objects ...the russians will blow it up with a drone swarm. The Israeli Iron dome is a copy of the pAtriot with some minor tweaking its still not effective with todays technology. Former US Army Spec OP JSOC

@mostlyevilmisha

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The Russians can't defeat their own S-300s, or their own 80's drone tech. The US would absolutely have Air Dominance of any theatre in a short time, and the Pat would be a big part of that. Yes, they aren't as mobile as some newer systems, but they upgrade that thing constantly (and in ways you aren't always aware of), and yes, they are vulnerable to HARM, but that's what layered Air Defense is for, THAAD and Pat and AEGIS, ground and sea. In a NATO system, with Gepards and NASMS and just the butt-load of modern MANPADS and all the other goodies, a bird couldn't crap in that air space without something painting it.

In the 1st Iraq War (Desert Storm 1991) the U.S. positioned Patriot batteries around Tel Aviv and other cities because Sadam Hussein threatened to use SCID missiles against Isreal. In a 5-week period he fired 42 SCUD missiles (Russian made) at Israel. The Patriot system destroyed 41. Only 2 deaths were attributed to the attacks.

@itsahellofaname

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He fired a sh*t-ton of SCUD missiles at us in Saudi Arabia, too, and Patriots batted 100%, until the Feb.25 attack that killed 28 soldiers.

@mostlyevilmisha

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@@itsahellofaname Which was because they were proximity kills, and not kinetic kills, and didn't destroy the missile, only broke it apart. RIP.

That video was too much, just all over the place

lol they dont miss there use phased array radar

Imagine the shit they've got right now that nobody knows about.

@mostlyevilmisha

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Right? Russia shoots off their mouth about tech that barely (if at all) works, and we make stuff that you never know about until it drops a guided munition through your window. Ask Sadam.

we just sent them to the ukraine there are training now and will be ready in 2 weeks set up in ukraine the russians are fbar