Russia makes ballistic missiles roughly twice as fast as Lockheed Martin makes the interceptors designed to shoot them down — and that is unlikely to change soon.

If Trump follows through on his pledge to give Ukraine a license to manufacture the Patriot interceptor missiles, it will be a major boost for Zelensky and Ukraine’s air defense…

Kyiv is trying to mitigate the shortage of missile interceptors that has left its cities exposed to Russia’s ballistic missiles. | World News

Kyiv says licensed Patriot production and a future Freya interceptor system are key to closing Ukraine's growing air defense gap.

Manufacturing the missiles would be challenging, noting that even the United States faces shortages of Patriot interceptors because of growing global demand.

Vladimir Zelensky also said that Kiev and Washington had reached agreements about producing interceptor missiles for the Patriot systems on the territory of Ukraine

Key supplies of interceptors to arrive in the next few days, as talks also continue on a ‘drone deal’, Zelenskyy says. What we know on day 1,598

Zelensky has long pleaded for faster supplies of interceptors capable of bringing down Russian ballistic missiles, a need accentuated by recent assaults on the Ukrainian capital…

US President Donald Trump gave his blessing earlier this week to domestic Ukrainian production of the missiles.

The Patriot is the only weapon in Kyiv’s arsenal capable of stopping Russian ballistic missiles.

Russia makes ballistic missiles roughly twice as fast as Lockheed Martin makes the interceptors designed to shoot them down — and that is unlikely to change soon.

Майкл Маккоул уверен, что производство ракет к Patriot в Украине отвечает интересам американских оборонных подрядчиков.