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The Swiss government will ​continue to withhold payments to the ‌United States for a Patriot missile system order until Washington provides binding delivery dates, adding that terminating the purchase ​is an option, it said on Wednesday.

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[–] CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world 61 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Don't buy weapons from unreliable actors.

[–] Akh@lemmy.world 10 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

They are not even very good apparently

[–] Gsus4@mander.xyz 6 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

They are good if experienced Ukrainians operate them. In the gulf they suck.

[–] fishy@lemmy.today 8 points 8 hours ago

They're incredibly expensive to use, drones aren't. They're using patriots to fight drones because our military is a bloated corpse that hasn't won a large conflict in decades. We're going to burn billions and it'll cost the Iranians millions. The Iranians learned from Ukraine, the US appears to have not.

[–] Siegfried@lemmy.world 7 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

They aren't? I thought ukraine was happy with them