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27 April 2017 – A Syrian UAV was shot down by an Israeli Air Force MIM-104 Patriot Air Defense system, which fired two missiles at the target. [137] 27 May 2017 – A RQ-21A UAV was reported shot down over Tartus. A Russian arms expo claimed it was downed by a Russian Pantsir air defense system. [138]
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.
The aircraft was intercepted by a MIM-104 Patriot SAM. On 13 October 2014, an Algerian Air Force Su-24 crashed during a training flight killing both crew members [124] On 6 July 2015, a Russian Air Force Su-24 crashed outside of Khabarovsk in Russia's Far East killing one out of two crew members. [125]
Ukraine has several air-defense systems that it says are capable of taking down Russia's hypersonic missiles, including the French/Italian-made SAMP-T and American-made MIM-104 Patriot battery ...
2012 – The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) approves the deployment of MIM-104 Patriot surface-to-air missiles in a 40-km (25-mile)-wide zone along Turkey ' s border with Syria. [1] 2011 – Iran announces its capture of the CIA UAV a Lockheed Martin RQ-170 Sentinel unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), claiming to have shot it down. The ...
Ukraine launched several surprise attacks [122] on Russian Su-34 fighter bombers in the occupied south of Kherson and Mariupol using American-supplied long-range MIM-104 Patriot missiles, causing significant losses of Russian Su-34. As Ukraine fought on, Russia lost almost 36 Su-34 fighter bombers until June 2024.
Modern long-range weapons include the MIM-104 Patriot and S-300 systems, which have effective ranges on the order of 150 km (93 mi) and offer relatively good mobility and short unlimbering times. These compare with older systems with similar or less range, like the MIM-14 Nike Hercules or S-75 Dvina, which required fixed sites of considerable ...
Iraqi EE-9 Cascavel armoured car hit by Coalition tank fire in February 1991. Coalition aircraft inbound during Operation Desert Shield.. List of Gulf War military equipment is a summary of the various military weapons and vehicles used by the different nations during the Gulf War of 1990–1991.