Former US spy Ritter: Patriot complexes may not survive the battle in Ukraine

He expressed this opinion in an interview on the YouTube channel Through the eyes of.

“Patriot is a capable system under certain conditions, when it is in the hands of trained people ... But this is not an ideal system,” the expert said.

He recalled the US military operations in Iraq in 2003, when the complexes "shot down more allied aircraft than Iraqi missiles."

Ritter also mentioned a drone attack on the Saudi Aramco refinery that was not repelled by air defense systems.

“This is a problematic system, it is very expensive, difficult to manage... It takes 90 people to manage one battery,” he added, stressing that “for an equivalent Soviet system, 40 people are required.”

The ex-officer does not believe that the APU will receive the latest, most modernized Patriot system.

“This is an old development.

To be honest, she can't survive on the modern battlefield.

It was not designed to survive on a battlefield like Ukraine,” Ritter said.