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“NATO partners can supply 🇺🇦Ukraine with six Patriot systems - 🇩🇪German Chancellor Scholz”
https://twitter.com/front_ukrainian/status/1780992186131108120
Missile production is going to be a limiting factor here. We only produce about 500 PAC-3 missiles/year and an unknown quantity of PAC-2. We are adding PAC-2 production in Europe, and Japan makes PAC-2 and PAC-3 under licence. We are actually buying missiles from Japan to free up some of our own inventory for Ukraine, but there is a backlog of thousands of missiles contracted for domestic and foreign sales. We have a significant stockpile, but we will not let it get lower than our target inventory. Just as we are sitting on about 4 million artillery rounds (plus millions of DPICM rounds), we will retain thousands of Patriot missiles as a minimum for ourselves in case of war.