“The Patriot AD firing the entire battery in rapid sequence, whether by design or protocol, or by panic – (which are good questions!) had the effect of minimizing secondary explosions.”

If the main purpose of any air defense (AD) system, including the Patriot SAM, is to destroy incoming missiles, then the new generation AD systems would be built around algorithms capable of intercepting hypersonic missiles. It would be beyond the human capacity to respond to such high-speed missiles, which is why artificial intelligence (AI) would be included in such an AD interceptor.

Now, as far as we know, Kinzhal and Kalibr’s deliberately destroy their targets going straight down. Under such circumstances, the Patriot System would go haywire, and in order to protect itself, the AI software in the Patriot AD would release all of its interceptors vertically to destroy the incoming missile.

However, since the Khinzal is a true hypersonic missile, the Patriot was incapable of destroying its target despite its advanced software. The Patriot expended upto 32 interceptors in quick succession but could not destroy its target. In the end, the missile was capable of destroying its own target viz. the Patriot PAC-3.

Thanks, Mr. P, it’s always a pleasure to discover pretty songs

A favorite song of Mr P,
if I remember correctly :

Bertolt Brecht
Memory of Marie A :

One day in blue-moon September,
Silent under a plum tree,
I held her, my silent pale love
in my arms like a fair and lovely dream.

Above us in the summer skies,
Was a cloud that caught my eye.
It was so white and high up,
and when I looked up, it was no longer there.

And since that moment, many a September
Came sailing in, then floated down the stream.
No doubt the plum trees were cut down for timber
And if you ask what happened to my dream
I shall reply: I cannot now remember.

Though what you have in mind I surely know.
And yet her face: I really don’t recall it.
I just recall I kissed long ago.

Even the kiss would have been long forgotten
If that white cloud had not been in the sky.
I know the cloud, and shall know it forever,
It was pure white and, oh, so very high.

Perhaps the plum trees still are there and blooming.
Perhaps that woman has six children too.
But that white cloud bloomed only for a moment:
When I looked up, it vanished in the blue.

Yes indeed, Mr P is versatile and a jack of all trades. We have a great deal to learn from him 🙏

Led on to one against the other
How about all moving together
Manichaeism has led us astray
A Converse will lead on our way
****

Perhaps you would know about this learned Viet-American and recently “canceled” author Linh Dinh, he writes the most interesting articles in his Substack :

“A key engineer of the mass slaughter of Slavs in Ukraine is Victoria Nuland. Her paternal grandfather was Meyer Nudelman of Odessa, Ukraine.

John Kerry claimed he didn’t know his original surname was Kohn. Haaretz, “The new nominee for secretary of state only found out about his Jewish grandfather while running in the 2004 presidential election.” Sure, and Kerry is also a man of peace.

An anomaly, the US was not a nation founded on race, but ideals. Since those have been thoroughly defecated on by every American politician in recent memory, the US is effectively dead. Serving Israel, America has systematically betrayed itself, so there’s nothing left but division, acrimony and cowardice. Increasingly uncivil, the US will surpass even South Africa in lethal daily disorder.

So divided, the US should partition itself into six, seven or eight chunks, so Woke Socialists can have California, for example, with Bernie Sanders or Amy Goodman as president. Ron Unz can rule an Angry White Pussy Republic encompassing Wyoming, Idaho and eastern Washington. Noam Chomsky as corpse can be president for life of New England. Emigrating to New York City, Yuval Noah Harari and his husband can co-rule that metropolis, now renamed Transhumania.”
https://linhdinh.substack.com/p/scattered-and-nostalgic-dreaming