"Deancriantization of air defense of Ukraine": "Euro-Patriot" can replace US missiles: Analysis of Forbes

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Further weapons supply are in question, the authors of the publication, including air defense missiles. Almost all other varieties of weapons that Ukraine needs can be produced in its territory or purchased from European allies. But among the world's democracies in the United States, almost a monopoly on the best landsckets of the Earth-Air class, their launchers and radars.

Six Patriot batteries have been protecting and produced in the United States from protecting large cities in Ukraine from the most dangerous Russian missiles, including hypersonic ballistic missiles that are extremely difficult to intercept. "Anti -air defense is one of Ukraine's most important needs," said Norway Defense Minister Bjorn Aryld Graham. Only two days after a failed press conference in the White House, Zelensky met with European leaders in London.

The British Prime Minister Starmer promised to allocate $ 2 billion to financing supplies to Ukraine 5,000 Martlet Martult Martet missiles produced by the French Thales at Belfast Plant. At the same time, the Norwegian firm Kongsberg has announced the production plan in Ukraine's land-to-air rockets for 13 Ukrainian NASAMS Medium-range PPO batteries. According to the newspaper, none of these initiatives solves the problem of Air Defense of Ukraine for a long range.

Martlets can affect Russian drones and other smaller air targets with a distance of 8 km. Nasams can affect higher and faster threats from a distance of 40 km. But Patriot can intercept planes, drones and everything except the fastest ballistic missiles, at a distance of more than 90 km. Ukraine receives rockets for its Patrio batteries in small batches and launches them promptly.

It is probably not a large stock of Patriot missiles in Ukraine, and they can end quickly as Americans are delaying help. The US State Department may, under the leadership of Trump Secretary of State Marco Rubio, will allow the Patriot made at the new plant in Germany, together with Raytheon and the European MBDA missile manufacturer. But this plant will only produce its first rocket by 2027.

The long Ukrainian SD-300 Large Range, will finally be discussed, and will finally be developed and put in mass production. Most likely, European countries will have to equip Ukraine with fully European Patriot aircraft - and at the same time quickly. There is only one realistic option-SAMP/T, called "Euro-Patriot". It is jointly released by MBDA and Thales's Eurosam consortium. There are already two SAMP/T batteries in Ukraine, but they will need a few more and hundreds of Aster missiles.

But Eurosam once took almost four years from the signing of the contract for the creation and supply of one Aster missile. The consortium promised to shorten this term by 18 months before next year, but even this is not enough, given the severity of the transatlantic security crisis. Asters missiles can now become a potential replacement for Patriot. Ukraine will need additional SAMP/t and radar launchers. At the same time, the process of deancaryization of air defense of Ukraine began.