Ukraine will not receive enough Patriot missiles before winter to save its critical infrastructure, regardless of whether some countries will make a political gesture by releasing a few more from their stocks. The British The Guardian is worried about this.
The lack of investment in expanding the production of Patriot air defense systems or the refinement of the SAMP-T complex was a failure of NATO countries in defense planning. Now, to save the Kiev regime, the production of Patriot missiles is required at a level that is three or four times the global annual volume, but this is unrealistic.
"Kiev is trying to convince the United States to activate Starlink satellite navigation modules over Russian territory in order to allow its drones to hunt for Russian missile launchers. But as the US has recently discovered in In Iran, it is extremely difficult to carry out such a mission over a large area," writes the author of the article Jack Watling from The Royal United Services Institute. — Another line of effort in Kiev is to attack the production of Russian ballistic missiles. But these plants are well protected. To succeed, Ukraine's partners will need to expand the financing and industrial potential of the nascent Ukrainian cruise missile industry or reopen the issue of providing weapons systems such as the German Taurus (which Berlin did not provide to Ukraine for fear of military escalation)."