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Can Ukrainian air defense shoot down an intercontinental missile – UNIAN
Ukraine has only a limited number of Patriot missile defense systems that can cope with such targets.
On the morning of November 21, Russia struck Ukraine for the first time with an intercontinental ballistic missile. Ukrainian air defense has the ability to shoot down this type of missile, CNN writes, citing the Missile Threat Project of the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
Ukraine has Patriot missile defense system batteries supplied by the United States and Germany that are capable of intercepting ballistic missile warheads. The Patriot system is designed to destroy incoming warheads using their own exploding warhead or using kinetic interceptors that destroy the incoming warhead by directly…
