Russia trolls the US on Twitter
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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.