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The United States, Israel and Ukraine are in talks to provide Kiev forces with up to eight MIM-104 Patriot long-range air defense systems currently owned and used by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), the Financial Times reported on June 27, citing several unnamed sources familiar with the matter.
According to the report, the systems would likely be transferred from Israel to the U.S., and only then from there to Ukraine.
In April, Israel announced that it planned to phase out all of its Patriot systems within two months. The exact number of the country’s Patriot systems remains unknown.
The IDF designation for the Patriot system is “Yahalom” [diamond in Hebrew]. Israeli PAC-2 systems have been upgraded to the GEM+ standard which has better performance against tactical ballistic missiles, cruise missiles or warplanes in complement to the PAC-3.
Israel didn’t say what will happen to the retired system, but the Kiev regime has for months now been asking for more Patriots to bolster Ukrainian air defenses in the face of increasing Russian drone and missile attacks.
President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Ukraine needs 25 Patriots to cover the country, but Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said he is for now focused on securing just seven batteries to protect Ukraine’s largest cities.
Ukraine received last year two Patriot systems and two launchers from Germany and another system from the United States with two additional launchers donated by the Netherlands. The systems were a mix of PAC-2 and PAC-3. Most of these systems have been already damaged or destroyed by the Russian military.
In response to Ukrainian demands, Germany confirmed last month that it will supply a third Patriot system to Kiev forces. Around the same time, Spain said that it would provide additional missiles to Kiev forces.
President Biden also made the decision earlier this month to supply an additional Patriot system to Ukraine. Later, the U.S. announced that it will halt all open orders for Patriot missiles and redirect them to Kiev forces until its defense needs are met.
Moreover, German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius announced that his country would deliver another 100 Patriot air defense missiles to Ukraine in an initiative with Denmark, the Netherlands and Norway. Romania also said that it will provide one of its newly-aquried systems to Kiev forces.
A Patriot system costs around $1,1 billion. A single PAC-3 missile costs some $7 million and a PAC-2 missile could cost up to $4 million, depending on the version. Despite the high cost, the U.S. is likely willing to pay Israel for the systems if it agrees to indirectly supply them to Ukraine.
Such a move would be extremely dangerous for Israel as Russia will likely respond by bolstering the defensive and offinsive capablities of the country’s main foes in the Middle East, Iran and Syria. Still, Israel may take the risk to secure more U.S. support for its ongoing war on the Palestinian enclave of the Gaza Strip and a possible offinsive against Hezbollah in Lebanon.
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the debate of trump and biden wad nothing spectacular two anglo-american white men with lots of money and expect me to listen to them,smh what’s even more pathetic these men will ask for campaign donations from there “supporte” it sure going to be interesting in the coming elections.
it reminded me of the food fights we used to have in 3rd grade, and just as informative.
repeat after me! zircons for hezbollah! zircons for hezbollah!
toss the houthis in there too.
all patriots redirected to protect zelensky’s bunker.
what will putin and the rest of the russian federation have to say about this and their lack of proper house keeping with the “5th column” inside it’s country and government?… will this be another opportunity to leave the un ca$in0 for the safety and security of all russians both at home and abroad?… and to give an ultimatum finally to it’s dual national(s)abroad that they will either be coming home to russia or staying in their second homes in the west forever!
more importantly. when does russia kick out every western foreign service “terrorist” from it’s country so that there will be no more attempts or threats on either it’s property or it’s peoples like beslan and crocus hall again?
they might have to do it quietly and incrementally so as not to agitate their moslem minority.
it’s a sensitive issue, especially since moslems from chechnya fought so well for russia in ukraine.
oh my… looks like sf is protecting it’s investment that is doing it’s best to eliminate the indigenous in russia by not allowing me to respond to the “moslem” comment that is not only derisive but holocaust and genocide in proportionality to the party i wish to elaborate on in this response…
when will sf get the *** editor off it’$ site once and for all!
stop whining, it’s just a work of stop-list. i have had this crap happened several times, but not whined. annoying, but not lethal. p.s. just got it again. what the…
give it a rest, girly man. the minder software is full of kinks and bugs. just clear your cookies, reload your browser and your ‘ban’ disappears.
all legal services are kicked already. ned, soros, “greenpeace” are in the list of unwanted organizations. pro-westers, pro-nazist pseudo-liberal media are closed after the foreign agents act. promotion/advertising companies don’t give money to the foreign agents. some of them left to pribaltica or cz to continue spreading the lies for money of the state dept. last branches of western msm were closed few days ago in response to closing 3 russian news companies.
i said about legal organizations. not legal ones are cia, mi-6 and so on, it’s hard to close them forever, may be with nuclear strike only. they are hiding under disguise of embassy or journalists. the second disguise is almost disappeared, that’s why stupid penguin from the state dept miller was so angry when remnants of western propaganda were exiled. he said it’s the threat for freedom of speech, ha-ha-ha!
that sounds like israel is admitting they’re worthless.
which they are unless you’re a raytheon shareholder.
the satanist eugenicists are deliberately trying to get christians , jews and muslims to fight each other so they can create a world totalitarian government from the ashes: don’t be fooled by their lies and propaganda. they lie because they follow the father of lies. ignore them. they hate that. 😁
it’s not a queßtion of giving anything away out of the goodwill of their hearts – nah doesn’t happen ever where jews are concerned. but it’s a questionwhat they, the jews will get in stead and on whose dime. thus the retards from the white house will have to come up with something new that will forward the genocide of palestinians quite a bit. and think about it, the jews don’t really need the system since the neighbours haven’t a lot of jets!
maybe somebody can negotiate a ‘cease fire’ with russia until the us catches up on missile production. maybe another big order of chinese chips will help them along.