Unfortunately Europe can’t produce and send patriot missiles to feed UA air defense, and cruelly lack of air defense system (for what I know : I don’t).
I guarantee you that the moment Ukraine received one of the Patriot missile systems, they reverse engineeed it.
These are smart and highly resourceful people
They have f-16s now too. This allows them to use western air-to-air missiles in addition to air-to-ground, increasing the variety of options people have for giving them stuff.
Many European countries have patriot missiles. They probably not allowed to be exported anywhere without a permission from USA, and if you ignore such an export restriction, you’ll end up in trouble when trying to procure arms the next time. Or, might end up. After what Trump’s done, it could very well be that this would be considered a force majeure situation. We are defending ourselves from the Russia, and of course we must be allowed to use our AD missiles for that.
So, we should probably just send to Ukraine all patriot missiles we have got and immediatelly order a lot of NASAMS and IRIS and SAMP platforms and missiles to replace them.
Time for Europe to step in. They saw this coming anyway.
Unfortunately Europe can’t produce and send patriot missiles to feed UA air defense, and cruelly lack of air defense system (for what I know : I don’t).
I guarantee you that the moment Ukraine received one of the Patriot missile systems, they reverse engineeed it. These are smart and highly resourceful people
They have f-16s now too. This allows them to use western air-to-air missiles in addition to air-to-ground, increasing the variety of options people have for giving them stuff.
Many European countries have patriot missiles. They probably not allowed to be exported anywhere without a permission from USA, and if you ignore such an export restriction, you’ll end up in trouble when trying to procure arms the next time. Or, might end up. After what Trump’s done, it could very well be that this would be considered a force majeure situation. We are defending ourselves from the Russia, and of course we must be allowed to use our AD missiles for that.
So, we should probably just send to Ukraine all patriot missiles we have got and immediatelly order a lot of NASAMS and IRIS and SAMP platforms and missiles to replace them.
Here’s a couple of things that are going on
Gravehawk
5000 thales from UK
Aster 30 B1NT early days but Europe has already started
Also German support with 6 Iris-T in Ukraine already and another 6 being worked on. Also 56 Gepards and 2 Skynex systems. https://www.bundesregierung.de/breg-en/news/military-support-ukraine-2054992