Something in the Nose of the Patriot Missile Is Holding Up Trump’s Promise to Ukraine — a Seeker So Prized Nobody Gets to Build It
Trump’s reversal leaves Ukraine facing a shortage of interceptors as officials warn sensitive radar technology could reach Russia.
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Something in the Nose of the Patriot Missile Is Holding Up Trump’s Promise to Ukraine — a Seeker So Prized Nobody Gets to Build It
The world of Ukrainian missile defense advocates was euphoric when, during the early July NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey, U.S. President Donald Trump stated he was willing to give Kyiv “the blueprints” needed to build its own Patriot missiles. But the sense of optimism has since faded due to US technology releaseability issues. A MIM-104 Patriot Surface-to-Air Missile System assigned to the Fort Bliss, Texas-based 11th Air Defense Artillery Briga…
The reason Donald Trump returned to the decision to give Ukraine the opportunity to develop its own ground-to-air missiles for Patriot systems is related to an increasingly heated dispute over the export of a secret technology that, if not managed with great care, risks reaching the Russian hands, according to The Telegraph. The most important piece is a small radar inside the interceptor missile – a component so advanced that Washington refuses…
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