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The MIM-104 Patriot is a mobile interceptor missile surface-to-air missile (SAM) system, the primary such system used by the United States Army and several allied states. It is manufactured by the U.S. defense contractor Raytheon and derives its name from the radar component of the weapon system.
Launch of a MIM-104 Patriot missile. The United States Army Integrated Air and Missile Defense [IAMD] Battle Command System (IBCS) is a plug-and-fight network intended to let a radar or any other defensive sensor feed its data to any available weapon—colloquially, "connect any sensor to any shooter".
The MIM-104 Patriot is a surface-to-air missile (SAM) system, the primary of its kind used by the United States Army and several allied nations. On 15 October 1964, the Secretary of Defense directed that the Army Air Defense System for the 1970s (AADS-70s) program name be changed to Surface-to-Air Missile, Development (SAM-D). [ 10 ]
Fearing China will deploy hypersonic weapons to sink ships in the Pacific, the U.S. Navy is moving forward with a plan to arm some of its vessels with Patriot interceptor missiles, two senior ...
A Ukrainian defense initiative is making steel armor plates to wrap around the control unit of the Patriot battery.
MIM-104 Patriot: 2nd Battalion 1st Air Defense Artillery Regiment (2–1st ADAR: 35th ADAB Camp Carroll, South Korea: MIM-104 Patriot 3–2nd ADAR 31st ADAB Fort Sill, Oklahoma: MIM-104 Patriot 4–3rd ADAR 31st ADAB Fort Sill, Oklahoma MIM-104 Patriot 3–4th ADAR: 108th ADAB Fort Bragg, North Carolina: MIM-104 Patriot, AN/TWQ-1 Avenger, FIM ...
The only remaining firing unit, 2nd Battalion, 71st Air Defense Artillery Regiment (71st ADA), whose sector covers the northern reaches of the Republic of Korea, was reassigned 16 July 1981 to the US Army Element, Combined Field Army [15] (ROK/US), pending transfer of its weapon/equipment and missions to ROKA in mid-1982.
The Nike Hercules, initially designated SAM-A-25 and later MIM-14, was a surface-to-air missile (SAM) used by U.S. and NATO armed forces for medium- and high-altitude long-range air defense. [4] It was normally armed with the W31 nuclear warhead , but could also be fitted with a conventional warhead for export use.