The Patriot air defense system battery, which the US provides to Ukraine, may have a limited effect due to the length of training to use it and incomplete coverage of the country's territory.

This is reported by CNN with reference to American military experts.

"They (Patriot - ed.) have great accuracy, high attack speed, so they really protect the ground against very specific targets," said retired American Major General James Marks.

Perhaps there are certain inflated expectations of what the Patriot battery will be able to do for Ukraine.

This was noted by the ex-commander of the US Army in Europe, Lieutenant General Mark Gertling.

As an example, he cited the fact that the complexes will not be able to be used immediately after the US decision to hand them over.

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Gertling also said that the training of relevant specialists in the USA takes about a year.

The lieutenant general also explained that the Patriot complexes

"These systems don't move around the battlefield. You put them somewhere that protects your very strategic objective, for example, in Kyiv. If someone thinks that this is going to be a system that can close the 800-kilometer border between Ukraine and Russia, they just don't. knows how this system works," noted the former commander of the US forces in Europe.

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So Hertling suggests that such expensive munitions will not be used to shoot down every Russian missile.

"This is not a system that will pursue drones or small ballistic missiles," he added.

We will remind, on December 21, the USA announced a new package of military aid for Ukraine worth 1 billion dollars.

The package will include, in particular, the Patriot air defense system.

It is expected that the total amount of aid for Ukraine will amount to 1.85 billion dollars, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken announced.

Previously, military expert Oleg Zhdanov estimated that the training of the Armed Forces to use the Patriot complex would last no more than a month in wartime conditions.

And the Air Force of the Armed Forces informed that it is the Patriot, as well as the SAMP-T, that will help Ukraine protect itself from ballistic missile strikes.

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