The reason why this war started may be that Ukraine discussed with the United States that year to deploy THAAD in Kharkov . Russia has said, if I don’t attack you, if you deploy THAAD in Kharkov, how close will it be to Moscow?
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Now the US media reports that the United States plans to announce this week that it will provide Ukraine with a medium- and long-range missile defense system. What will it provide? It's probably Patriot 2. But Patriot 2 is a very complicated system. It is not like the self-propelled howitzer , which can find the target through the guidance of the drone and then attack the target. The Patriot 2 anti-missile system mainly consists of the PAC-2 "Patriot" missile and its launch vehicle, A14/MPQ-53 multifunctional radar, AN/MSQ-104 engagement and fire control station (FCS) and other support equipment (such as Five systems including power generation vehicles are integrated together. In addition to learning the ability to integrate these five systems, the operator also needs to learn an information processing algorithm set in accordance with the NATO standard. Only in this way can the incoming decoy bombs and missiles be distinguished. Then the various systems are combined through calculation to let the fire control system shoot out the missile.
It takes a long time to learn this process. Basically, according to NATO training standards, it takes an ordinary soldier one year to master the entire Patriot 2 system and use it in actual combat.
So if this news is true and it is clear that it will be realized in the near future, then it is very likely that the Patriot 2 will be controlled by NATO soldiers, because it is impossible for Ukrainian soldiers to learn this system in just 5 months. And it has to be controlled through those so-called retired NATO soldiers.
After all, this is a good opportunity for the United States and NATO countries, because on the battlefield, the Patriot II system can compete head-on with Russia's S400 and s500, as well as other types of missiles such as kh-22. So this possibility still exists.
