There is a very high chance that Russian troops could capture it (in the Ukraine) and obtain the NATO air defense codes

Agreed.

> A Patriot missile battery usually has about 90 U.S. soldiers attached to it. Each system includes a phased array radar, a control station, and eight launchers, each of which can hold four missiles.

I was completely ignorant of how these missile batteries worked. That's a lot of tech to fall into the wrong hands.