Russia trolls the US on Twitter
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America says the system took only minor damage and remains in operation, as it consists of different components which can be located away from each other. Ukraine says they intercepted all 6 missiles aimed at them, so no idea.
How many of those components are sourced from China?
probably 90% and the 10% of the other parts are worth millions (arms industry love their proprietary bullshit)
IDK, but it's worth noting Patriot is old. I think it's been upgraded over time, but it's been around a long time. So this could be from back when American defense contractors made their own parts. IBM made embedded CPUs for a long time that were higher end in the quality sense, fabbed in the USA. And I know the government used some of those.
The Patriot is nominally from the 1960s, but it's like the B-52 being from the 1940s.