Germany is delivering two more Patriot launchers to Ukraine. An October 2022 photo of one deployed by the Luftwaffe to Sliač Air Base in Slovakia in March of that year. (Janes/Nicholas Fiorenza)
Germany is delivering two more Patriot launchers to Kyiv in the coming days, the Federal Ministry of Defence (BMVg) announced in a press release on 1 August. The ministry said further system components would be delivered in a second stage within the next two to three months.
In return, the US Department of Defense has agreed that Germany would be the first country to buy the newest generation Patriot systems, according to the BMVg. The ministry said this process was initiated during a meeting between German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius and US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth in Washington, DC, on 14 July, supported by NATO allies co-ordinated by the alliance’s Supreme Allied Commander Europe, US General Alexus Grynkewich.
The BMVg called on other NATO allies to follow Germany’s example. At the end of April, the US Department of State approved a possible US Foreign Military Sale of a Patriot system to Romania, whose Ministry of National Defence said it would replace one donated to Ukraine in September 2024. Earlier, the Netherlands ordered equipment to replenish a Patriot system donated to Ukraine, the Dutch Ministry of Defence and Raytheon announced on 16 January.
For more information, please see US approves possible Patriot air-defence system sale to Romania to replace one donated to Ukraineand Netherlands orders equipment to replenish Patriot air-defence system donated to Ukraine
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