The United States has been blocked from trying to increase the production of missiles for Patriot air defense systems at factories in Japan ї. Virus production is due to the defect of an important component of the Boeing company.
This is reported by RBC-Ukraine via correspondence with Reuters.
Gerela said that the US plan to take over Japanese factories to increase the production of missiles for systems Patriot, which Ukraine is relying on to protect itself from Russian attacks, is contributing. The reason for this is the lack of missile homing systems. This component is supplied by Boeing.
The United States wants to increase the production of anti-aircraft missiles from 500 per river to 750.
The Japanese company Mitsubishi Heavy Industries is already building about 30 missiles under the license of defense contractor Lockheed Martin and could increase this number to 60.
“There may be a number of missiles, first of all Mitsubishi Heavy Industries can e increase the obligations of production”, – one of the journalists told Reuters.
In addition, due to the evidence of a sufficient number of homing systems of the Japanese company, it would also be possible to increase the operational pressure. Japan announced in 2022 that it is ready to provide financial assistance to defense companies as it wants to expand production. Let's talk about additional assistance for enterprises that operate for the consumption of Japan itself, and not for export.
As you can see, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries or the United States will have to independently find money for the production of additional supplies to the plant, and this can cost dozens millions dollars.
Patriot for Ukraine
It is likely that in the spring of 2023, Ukraine for the first time rejected the American Patriot air defense system as a partner. This is the current PPO system, which is designed to shoot down ballistic missiles with which Russia attacks Ukraine.
In order to intensify Russian attacks, Ukraine called on its partners to supply additional systems. Thus, Germany gave Ukraine the third Patriot system. The lime tree has already arrived in Ukraine.
In addition, Romania and the Netherlands also announced that they plan to transfer their air defense systems to Ukraine.
According to the words of President Volodymyr Zelensky, 25 Patriot is needed, so completely “close” the sky of Ukraine.
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