The Ukrainian military shot down the high-tech missile using the Patriot system.
The Ukrainian military fired multiple missiles at various angles from the American defense system to intercept Moscow’s missile, indicating how quickly the military learned to used technology, which uses radar to detect incoming targets at long ranges.
Ukraine has so far received at least two Patriot systems, one from the US and one from Germany, and they were officially put into use in mid-April. The Russian leader claimed those qualities “allows it to overcome all existing and, I think, prospective anti-aircraft and anti-missile defense systems, delivering nuclear and conventional warheads in a range of over 2,000 kilometers.”
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