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🇺🇸 Patriot (PAC-3)
Land · Raytheon (sistem/radar/fırlatıcı) + Lockheed Martin (PAC-3 füze) — ABD 🇺🇸 · 1984 (Patriot) · 2001 (PAC-3) · 2016 (PAC-3 MSE)
The US long-range air-defense standard deployed worldwide; the PAC-3 MSE 'hit-to-kill' missile destroys ballistic missiles, aircraft and cruise missiles by direct body-to-body impact — the system that achieved history's first hypersonic (Kinzhal) intercept in Ukraine.
Specifications
- Class: Long-range SAM / ballistic missile defense
- Range (PAC-3 MSE): ~60 km ballistic / ~120 km aircraft
- Ceiling: ~36 km (PAC-3 MSE)
- Speed: >Mach 4.5 (PAC-3); ~5,000+ km/h
- Warhead: Hit-to-kill + small lethality enhancer
- Radar: AN/MPQ-65 PESA — 125+ targets, ~180 km
- Guidance: Inertial + uplink data-link + active radar seeker (terminal)
- Launcher load: 16 PAC-3 MSE per launcher
Beats: Taktik/teatral balistik füzeler (Iskander/Kinzhal sınıfı) — vur-imha et; Kinzhal'i Kiev'de düşüren ilk sistem, Manevralı seyir füzeleri (Kalibr/Kh-101) ve insanlı avcı uçaklar — katmanlı PAC-2/PAC-3 örtüsü, Sınırlı sayıda orta-yükseklik MALE SİHA (Wing Loong II / Mohajer-6 sınıfı) ve yüksek değerli nokta koruması (üs/komuta/rafineri)
Loses to: Kitle ucuz loitering / Shahed-136 sürüsü — füze ($4M) maliyet-değiş tükenmesi sürdürülemez, Doygunluk salvosu (eşzamanlı çok eksenli atış, kovan/mühimmat bitimi), SEAD / anti-radyasyon baskısı — yayan AN/MPQ-65 radarı Kh-31P/Kh-58 anti-radyasyon füzesi için açık emitter hedefi
The most battle-proven system in its class, but its defining weakness is cost asymmetry: spending a $4-5M missile against a $20-50K Shahed is unsustainable; it struggles against saturation and low-RCS threats. Cheap mass-UAV salvos + SEAD economically erode the high-value but expensive battery.
Related systems
Same manufacturer (Raytheon (sistem/radar/fırlatıcı) + Lockheed Martin (PAC-3 füze) — ABD 🇺🇸): FGM-148 Javelin, AIM-120 AMRAAM, AIM-9X Sidewinder, Raytheon Coyote
Related systems (Land): SİPER, HİSAR-O+, HİSAR-A+, SUNGUR, KORKUT, Tayfun, GÜRZ, S-400 Triumf, Bora, Kara Atmaca
