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Re: New Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact (Patriot missiles in Poland) |
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Posted by WillD on Fri May 28 13:08:06 2010, in response to Re: New Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact (Patriot missiles in Poland), posted by Olog-hai on Fri May 28 04:00:43 2010. Now those are an actual threat to Russia, rather than the benign missile shield that was backed off on.Huh? The MIM-104 Patriot missile is a surface to air missile, a defensive weapon. You cannot threaten a neighbor with a defensive weapon. And as for Poland challenging Russia, we saw in Iraq just how poorly an individual weapons system can achieve air superiority when removed from its command and control structure. The Russians' current weapons may lack the sophistication of some of our stuff, but they would still have little problem taking the Polish air defense network apart, Patriots and F-16s or no. A Polish air defense network including the Patriot is about as meaningful as the Iranian S-300PMU1 system is to us. The lack of discussion of the Patriot-launched ERINT PAC-3 is telling of just how little factual basis this article may actually have behind it. |
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