[ETCM]

One of the greatest failures of the west, as I understand US alone has some 55 patriot systems, many I am sure are in east Asia, but many US and nato Allie’s have them in europe.

From what I understand, over half our Patriot batteries are deployed outside the US. We have a huge back-order for foreign sales. Japan and Germany are already building missiles under license. We should add another missile production line in Europe, as well as building a production line for the launchers, Radars and other components. Raytheon is building 12 Batteries/year, but the demand far exceeds that. I would also like to see a longer range missile added to Patriot batteries, like the SM-6, particularly the blk 1B. The US Army has already bought the truck based VLS to launch them (Typhon MRC).

[ETCM]

We should add another missile production line in Europe, as well as building a production line for the launchers, Radars and other components.

To add, Europe has selected Patriot as one leg of the European Sky Shield Initiative, along with Arrow and IRIS/T. France has been resisting and wanting EU built systems. Maybe a Patriot production line in France gets them on board.

[blitz128]

Agreed, but Ukraine needs them now, every missile shot down over Ukraine is a missile that can’t be used against others
Not sure how they don’t see that

China is watching how we react