"We were tasked in Jan 2023 to deliver BMD capability to 🇺🇦..the training occurred at Fort Sill, and in April we conducted a validation exercise in 🇵🇱. #PATRIOT was transferred to protect Kyiv in late April & at 02:30 AM [May 04] it engaged the first ALBM " Col Rosanna Clemente
"We parachuted a [ADA] team into 🇺🇦..and they did an assessment in December of 2021..They took some of our #PATRIOT folks/planners. They spent some time with the Ukrainians and looked at the problem set that..2 months later they were absolutely facing" BG Maurice Barnett
"If you want to see some place that's already doing composite go to any major city in 🇺🇦..You all will probably see this in the news in the next few months or so..the team has done a phenomenal job of moving the ball [on integration]" BG Maurice Barnett
"They have probably a #PATRIOT Bn [worth].. Some of this is being used to protect static sites.. others are being moved around and doing some really historic things..One of them is a #SAMbush.. stretching the very edges..to engage the first A-50 system back in Jan"
(🎥US Army)
(🎥US Army)
"In order for #PATRIOT engage ballistic missiles, it has to have other systems around it to engage other targets..the Norwegian defense attaché..he kind of looked at the 🇳🇴#NASAMS as the knight that protects king #PATRIOT" ( 🎥US Army)
"The German trainers woke up that Ukranian battery in the middle of the night and made them march order emplace, fight an air battle and..take off somewhere..A month later they conducted some of their first #SAMBUSH..shooting down SU-27's along the 🇷🇺 border." (🎥US Army)
" The tactical control officer that shot down that first #Kinzhal #Killjoy was 23 years old. " (🎥US Army)
The full exchange from the 2024 Fires Symposium can be viewed at the US Field Artillery Association's page ⤵️
vimeo.com/951587661
vimeo.com/951587661
..A newly unearthed video from a recent U.S. Army symposium reveals the truth behind one of Kyiv’s most important aerial victories of the war—but also clarifies the depth and evolution of the Russian air and missile threat. aviationweek.com/defense-space/…
"Speaking on a panel at the US Field Artillery Association’s Fires Symposium 2024 Col. Rosanna Clemente confirmed that the first A-50 fell to a German-provided Patriot system, in what she described as a “SAMbush,” twz.com/land/u-s-army-…
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