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Targeting effort on the part of the russians and the u.s. made the calculation that the ukrainians could hold on without the protection that is afforded them by the patriots system. now they see how critical the kits have been and putting ukraine in the dark, you know, hitting the power and border supply and sewage systems. those kind of things affect the ability of ukraine to conduct this war and the u.s.' main goal keep ukraine in the war effort, make the argument we should have done this earlier but that's the past and now looking toward the future it's clear that the u.s. needs to do this ...

After low and medium-altitude targets like the system the u.s. sent. these systems are pretty good when it comes to lower flying aircraft and they also don't have as many of the more expensive high-powered missiles and radar systems associated with the patriot system and accurate. very good at what they do but not as big and they're not as powerful, if you will, as the patriot system is. that also includes the radars associated with each of those systems. >> we know that the u.s. has provided systems like this to poland but the u.s. was initially hesitant to provide them to ukraine. what do yo...

Missile to in essence terrorize the countries in the gulf region particularly saudi arabia and, of course, american forces in that region. so fast forward to the present day, we have different variants of the peyatriot missile and missile system based on a series of radars used as part of a complete picture. and what it's designed to do is designed to go after medium and high-altitude targets including aircraft, incoming missiles, especially cruise missiles and go after grounds and able to really seal off a lot of the air defense areas in countries as diverse as israel as well as places in eur...

>> those of us who cover the middle east know when the u.s. started to provide these patriot air defense missiles to israel, it saved a lot of israeli lives because rockets and missiles were coming in from southern lebanon or gaza and the patriots defense missile system really prevented a lot of those from making any impact. >> absolutely. and i've got to believe that's been the impetus for making this decision. this is a big change. >> the ukrainians have been asking for it for a long time. why has it taken so long? >> it's the right question. i remember just as i left in 2020 i had a final m...

The s-300, our patriots system could do that. these are huge systems which take a crew to run. isis is not there yet. 30,000 feet, man pads can't make it. they make it to 15,000, 18,000 max. but physical evidence shows that the actual airframe, the actual compartment shows pieces of metal fanning out like they were blown out, which tells me this may have been a lockerbie type bombing. isis has been aggressive in pursuing targets in the sinai. egyptians are fighting them daily. isis has conducted assassinations there. so we have to look at the old traditional route of putting the bomb on the pl...