MIM-104 Patriot

However, cranking up complex multinational programs will take time, and not all American-made weapons can be readily replicated.

Take the Patriot as an example, which is one of the most advanced air defense systems in the world.

It consists of a radar system and mobile launchers that can fire interceptor missiles at incoming projectiles or aircraft.

Up until now, the Patriot has been Europe's primary air defense system.

However, as the EU is expected to flow more funding into air defense and missile systems, many of its members are looking for ways to replace American weaponry, the Patriot included.

And while no alternative is quite as good as the Patriot, SAMP-T missiles come the closest.

This system is made by Eurosam, a joint venture between pan-European missile champion MBDA and Francis Thales.

EU members will have to make significant investments in these companies.

And then we have this so-called plane crash, right, in Florida, which, yeah, I was watching.

I was watching somebody break it down last night on a podcast, and they were saying that it fits all the descriptions of Patriot Missile.

So it's not my take on it, but that's what somebody was saying.

And there definitely weren't any plane parts, right? So it's another one of these situations where a plane crashes, but there's no parts of a plane, which is weird.

Electricity hubs, civilian targets everywhere with missiles that get through because air defenses are inadequately stocked at this time.

One major air defense system is the Patriot missile.

And we begin with John's positive report about Poland coming forward.

as a Patriot missile maintenance barn, maintenance facility.

And that looks not only to be a significant fact for the present Ukraine conflict, but also for NATO and the whole of along the frontier.

John, a very good evening to you.

These are expensive, but I do believe they work, the Patriot missile system.

And they've been in the news recently because there are not enough of them or they're low in the arsenal with them.

But like the Ukrainian story about like it being uber corrupt and exclusive rights to military hardware, that didn't make the news.

and i see that i didn't hear anywhere but it doesn't surprise me do you recall several months back i want to say five or six months maybe seven months back though they were talking about even the regular main talking heads the lamestream media was mentioning how american supplies were showing up on the black market and i was thinking about that you had mentioned you didn't really know where i bet you could find that stuff on the dark web you know the The deep underground where, you know, I wonder if you could buy anything like, you know, I've been Patriot Missile.

You've been on the dark

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I'm Nick Miles, and in the early hours of Saturday, the 31st of October, these are our main stories.

The US government approves the sale of vital Patriot missiles to Ukraine.

Kiev says it needs them now.

We find out why that won't happen.

Kiev says Moscow has stockpiled up to 700 ballistic missiles for attacks against Ukraine.

These are weapons fired high into the atmosphere that then strike their targets at many times the speed of sound.

The only reliable defence Kiev has against them are American Patriot missiles and Ukraine doesn't have enough of them.

So the latest announcement by the Trump administration will be welcomed in Kiev.

The Trump administration has approved the sale of 500 Patriot air defense missiles to Ukraine.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky had warned that his country had nearly run out of the munitions, which are vital to stopping ballistic missiles.

The State Department says the $2.1 billion purchase was financed by donations from Canada, Germany and Norway, and that no U.S. funds were involved.

I saw the, I think, CEO of Lockheed Martin recently in an interview explaining that they have missile orders for years and years and years.

If you look at something like the PAC-3, the Patriot Missile Interceptor, I mean, they probably have orders for a decade or so now in backlogs because not only do all the European nations need it, but also Taiwan and Japan.

And so we have all these countries we need to sell them to.

By the time they're done filling those orders, they'll have developed and will be selling the PAC-4 interceptor.