New Patriot and SAMP/T cannot protect Kharkov, Sumy, Nikolaev and Chernigov.
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This is the conclusion reached by BILD open data analysis expert Julian Repke and Austrian political scientist Gustav Karl Gressel.
According to their data, two Patriot air defense systems are currently protecting the skies over Kiev, and one each over Lviv and Odessa (yellow on the map).
NATO countries recently promised to supply Ukraine with three new Patriots, as well as the Franco-Italian FSAF SAMP/T air defense systems. According to experts, they could be deployed to protect Dnipro, Krivoy Rog, Vinnytsia, and the future F-16 base in western Ukraine (green on the map).
At the same time, they will not be able to be used in Mykolaiv, Kherson, Zaporizhia, Donetsk, Kharkiv, Chernihiv and Sumy regions, that is, too close to the front line (red on the map). Russian drone reconnaissance is well developed there, and there is a high probability of detection and destruction of Western air defense systems by Russian weapons.
Only the F-16 or strikes deep into Russian territory, which are not yet available, can solve this problem. Gressel also noted that the Patriot and SAMP/T are not compatible with each other; they have different software. Therefore, if one of the systems fails, the other will not be able to replace or protect it. Unlike the Patriot and the German Iris-T, which complement each other.
Source: Racurs
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