Unfortunately Europe can't produce and send patriot missiles to feed UA air defense, and cruelly lack of air defense system (for what I know : I don't).

[–] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 9 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

I guarantee you that the moment Ukraine received one of the Patriot missile systems, they reverse engineeed it. These are smart and highly resourceful people

[–] Tuuktuuk@sopuli.xyz 1 points 4 hours ago

Many European countries have patriot missiles. They probably not allowed to be exported anywhere without a permission from USA, and if you ignore such an export restriction, you'll end up in trouble when trying to procure arms the next time. Or, might end up. After what Trump's done, it could very well be that this would be considered a force majeure situation. We are defending ourselves from the Russia, and of course we must be allowed to use our AD missiles for that.

So, we should probably just send to Ukraine all patriot missiles we have got and immediatelly order a lot of NASAMS and IRIS and SAMP platforms and missiles to replace them.

[–] Carrolade@lemmy.world 6 points 11 hours ago

They have f-16s now too. This allows them to use western air-to-air missiles in addition to air-to-ground, increasing the variety of options people have for giving them stuff.

[–] sirico@feddit.uk 10 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Here's a couple of things that are going on

Gravehawk

5000 thales from UK

Aster 30 B1NT early days but Europe has already started

[–] MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 8 points 12 hours ago

Also German support with 6 Iris-T in Ukraine already and another 6 being worked on. Also 56 Gepards and 2 Skynex systems. https://www.bundesregierung.de/breg-en/news/military-support-ukraine-2054992