Ryuu96 said:
Thomas Laliberty, President of Raytheon Land & Air Defense Systems says that they have the capacity to build 1 Patriot battery per month! This is currently underutilized though, as they only have Switzerland's order of 5 batteries in production right now, plus some replacement contracts for the assets transferred to Ukraine. They expect another 12 batteries will be on contract within the next 18 months though. It's astounding that the Biden Admin did not use any USAI funds to take advantage of this spare capacity by placing orders for additional Patriot batteries for Ukraine. On missile production: PAC-3 MSE is currently at 500/year, and will reach 650 by 2027. And we finally learn what the rate for PAC-2 GEM-T is; 240/year, reaching 420/year in 2027. GEM-T is only in production for Foreign Military Sales customers. Raytheon currently has 500 GEM-T missiles on contract for production at their US facilities, plus 1000 missiles which will be built by their COMLOG joint venture with MBDA Germany. Raytheon expects another 1000 GEM-T orders on top of those 1500. |
So at best in 2027 they will produce 1000 Patriot missiles per year by 2027. That's nowhere near enough for the defense of Ukraine, I hope other systems, like Iris-T and Hawk, can supplement enough missiles for the defense of the Ukrainian air space.
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