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The United States military transferred dozens of Patriot air defense interceptors from storage in Israel to Poland in order to deliver them to Ukraine, Axios reported on January 28, citing three sources with knowledge on the matter.
The Israeli military designation for the Patriot system is “Yahalom” [diamond in Hebrew]. Israeli PAC-2 systems have been upgraded to the GEM+ standard which has better performance against tactical ballistic missiles, cruise missiles or warplanes in complement to the PAC-3. Last April, the Israeli Air Force (IAF) officially decommissioned all of its Patriot air defense systems.
In June, the Financial Times reported that the U.S., Israel and Ukraine are in talks to provide Kiev forces with up to eight Patriot systems which were in service with the IAF.
Axios’ sources confirmed the talks. According to the sources, Israel dragged its feet for the last few months out of concern Russia would retaliate, perhaps by supplying advanced weapons to Iran.
One of the sources, a Ukrainian official, told the U.S. news site that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu refused to take his calls on that issue for weeks. But in late September, Netanyahu finally approved the idea, according to an Israeli official.
The same Israeli official said that his country had informed Russia in advance of the move and stressed it was “only returning the Patriot system to the U.S.” and not supplying weapons to Ukraine.
According to Axios, a U.S. Air Force C-17 planes arrived at an air base in southern Israel in recent days and departed for Rzeszów in Eastern Poland.
The sources told the news site that the flight transferred roughly 90 patriot interceptors that can be used by Ukraine with its current Patriot systems. Additional equipment, like radars and other gear, will first be transferred to the U.S. to be refurbished.
A Patriot system costs around $1,1 billion. A single PAC-3 missile costs some $7 million and a PAC-2 missile could cost up to $4 million, depending on the version. Ukraine has already received multiple Patriot systems from the U.S., Germany and other allies. Most of these systems had been damaged or destroyed by the Russian military.
While the transfer of the systems will not have any impact on the battlefield in Ukraine, it will increase tensions between Russia and Israel.
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es ist ” sosweet”
ex richard “hitler” now ex richard “the cuck’. t-shirts should sell well 😏.
hitler was educated in austria.
you have so many names. and so many “votes” too.
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do you think they’ll close the base and hand over the garbage to the kurds or isis or aqaedal ?
they also got out of afghanistan. then goodbye to the rights of women and religious minorities. and where will they go? and who will win the elections in germany? probably merz!
theatre of operations.
see romanians cancelled elections. the biggest air force base on the planet and romes barracks.
to claim that these systems have no effect is wrong, i think.air defense systems are not miracle weapons but they are weapons that are dangerous and have an effect.
someone forgot to tell iran when they blasted israel.
forgot to tell israel too. mind you there’s some rather not too bad penthouses on the beach in tel avic going for a song currently.
axios e un site aparut in pandemie. are informatii pe surse. cred ca e vb de zeci poate chiar sute de rachete. cred ca rachete deja sunt la clovn. si alte state au dat rachete. japonia si coreea de sud. teatrul merge mai departe. minciuna și circ.
židia čo sa stali fašistami? je to možné? takto sa odvďačujú ruskému vojakovi za to, že ich zachránil pred istou smrťou? rus by sa mohol poučiť a už by nemal nikoho zachraňovať. miesto vďaky sa vždy dočká iba útoku a urážok. mysleniu zdar a svetu mier!!!
they’ve proven to be substandard anyway israel doesn’t use them, expensive rubbish
tax deductibles money laundering imo drug sales are very high globally now and the prices per kilo have sky rocketed with inflation.
the us should withdraw all military support for israel. supporting its genocidal campaign serves no us interests and gives us a reputation of being supporters of senseless violence.
nobody on the planet has produced more senseless violence than the us in the last two hundred years.
lol kike clyde,u and ur problematic mom proof again and again ur utter ignoranz. ur team stalin+ mao are the worst mass murderes of the 20th century,add pol pot and u have ur dream team.
you need to stop eating ice cream when you type, it comes out all phonetically messed up, like your poor frozen brain matter…
how can it give a reputation already established over the last 50 years? the usa has been all about senseless violence since jfk was wacked by the jewish mafia.
patriot missiles are over priced pieces of shit.
trump is an over priced piece of shit.
youre just dense. imo like a school kid. are you 13 yet?
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he’s almost as old as you… mentally speaking of course…
everything’s over priced now. started with the cares act. biggest spending act in global history. all written up under obama but given to trump to sign like the stargate operation. in between biden ordered more new dollars minted than ever before in history too, just for extra supply driven inflationary values globally.
arriveranno sempre più armi e soldi all’ucraina, usa i missili oreshnik e chiudi la partita altrimenti la russia sarà distrutta non c’è la farete se non vinci subito sul campo, forse avete le orecchie foderate di prosciutto.
and that’s why russia completed the sale of the su-35 to iran —- hopefully, it soon does the same with the orashnik
wow wasting taxpayer money in the name of ??????? clearly the western propaganda machine has infected many governments and officials. the european censorship complex has been installed and is active. any person dissenting will be muffled as possible. see – digital services act
when their economies collapse i envision a lot of these ‘muffled’ will come out snarling.
ars you practicing understatement?
but lavrov has said that israel is a friend!
maybe his but not the friend of the russian people.
one never hears about russians unless some nato drone hits them. years back we saw them, they were enjoying the world cup, with the visitors. now for zio-slag media, they’re just ‘putins’. everything to them evolves around their ‘putin’ phenomenon. there’s nothing else. secretly, the tribe love him. 😘
here’s a clue “bank of england delays gold delivery for up to 8 weeks…” you tube.
get it before its gone. imo.
btw hsbc and jp morgan are really the boe anyway. as are most globally. imo.
think about it… if they are transferring this many patriot systems, they have something big in the works for russia. now would be a good time to raise the hell out of a barrel of oil.
nice, so russian khinzals can hammer them in the port of odessa before they deploy… and iran will enjoy more success on their payback strike…
fuck israhell to pieces