MIM-104 Patriot Air Missile System

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The Patriot is a surface-to-air guided missile system for air defense of the planet. Patriot, which suggests Phased Array Tracking to intercept the target has been developed by 2 U.S. companies: Raytheon and Lockheed Martin Missiles and fireplace control. The Patriot intercepts enemy threats within the sky as aircraft, ballistic missiles and cruise missiles. a fireplace unit of the system contains a patriot radarset (radar phase), the engagement control station, a series of launch facilities and 4 missiles every power plant a strong and communications. The central fireplace control operations leads Patriot-squad techniques.

From the first development of the Patriot additionally has developed many versions of missiles. These are: PAC-1, PAC-2 and PAC-3. PAC-1 was developed by Raytheon, the PAC-2 by Raytheon, Lockheed, Siemens, Mitsubishi, PAC-3 - the most effective ever - was developed by Lockheed Martin Vought Systems.