Posted on 07/17/2025 8:19:13 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Preparations are underway to quickly transfer additional Patriot air defence systems to Ukraine, NATO's top military commander Alexus Grynkewich said on Thursday, as the country suffers some of the heaviest Russian attacks of the war so far.
"We are working very closely with the Germans on the Patriot transfer", he told a conference in the German city of Wiesbaden. "The guidance that I have been given has been to move out as quickly as possible."
U.S. President Donald Trump this week announced a toughened stance against Russia for its more than three-year war in Ukraine and promised new missiles and other weaponry for Kyiv.
He said on Tuesday that some Patriot missiles, coming from Germany, were already on their way to Ukraine.
A meeting of Patriot-owning nations and Ukraine donors, aimed at finding additional Patriot air defence batteries for Kyiv and chaired by Grynkewich, could take place on Wednesday next week, a source close to the talks told Reuters.
The expert level meeting is expected to be held at NATO's military headquarters SHAPE near the Belgian town of Mons, according to the source.
Grynkewich said there was also an issue of sequence with regard to deliveries to Ukraine.
"Secretary (of State Marco) Rubio just talked about capabilities that are in Europe (which) can be moved more quickly than something coming off the production line", Grynkewich noted.
"But the production line can then be used to backfill the capabilities that others donate."
He said he had no sense of what number of Patriot systems might be freed up for delivery to Kyiv. "There will be a lot more to follow, we're going to move as quickly as we can on this," he said.
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Kyiv needs ATACM missiles to destroy russian military sites.
I’m a Patriot and I’m not moving to Kyiv I don’t are what NATO says...
:)
Beat me by three minutes
European NATO is going to burn up the last of their interceptors.
For Ukraine.
Then get in line for new production.
Good thing Tom Brady retired.
He’s hoping they are quickly hit like most of the others!
Here’s hoping they are quickly hit like most of the others!
Maybe the FR zelensky / ukraine bros can start spamming social media sites in germany, france, england, and other nato country to give them nukes and nato boots on the ground...
So they won’t bother this board as much
Patriots missiles have a non-combat consumption rate. It’s not all pure production.
They must have live fires for training. They must roll off of deployment for periodic maintenance.
Raytheon quotes total system production of 1 per month. That includes the radar and processing for the missiles it feeds. Note that the issue is that targeting Patriots must guide and that guidance will be anti radar. The target is not the missiles. It is the radar. Hit it and replacement has to rely on the 1/month parameter, not the 500/year number (for missiles).
Still isn’t changing the war’s outcome….Vlad continues to gobble up one town after another…
Well at least we can gear up our defense manufacturing base and have NATO pay for it rather than give it away at taxpayer expense..
Oh, MISSILES.
I was hoping it was the football team.
If they had patriots they wouldn’t have to conscript old men and boys.
I was watching a video the other day that had Col Douglas MacGregor on. He said his military contacts told him that the US has only 8 days worth of Patriot missiles left in our arsenal so that if we get into a war with Russia it’s likely to go nuclear fast.
LOL, MacGregor? Seriously? Talk about being consistently wrong.
Douglas Macgregor @DougAMacgregor Jul 2, 2023
HERE IS WHAT THE MEDIA WILL NOT TELL YOU..
Ukrainian forces are on the verge of collapse, they are totally demoralized.
They've all been killed, it's OVER.
Send Belichik, who isn't a Patriot any longer, and his 24 year-old girlfriend. Although I imagine every Russian would want to 'hit that' as soon as possible.
You need to be deported back to Ukraine.
I don’t see that this matters. Russia is not sending waves of big aircraft in, they are sending in waves of drones, which this system is te very effective against
The majority of Euros don’t really need Patriots. They have opened their doors to their invasion and nobody needs to use weaponry to invade and overtake them.
If Ukraine joins EU, they will have different invaders than Russians. No escaping it.
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