Japan Announces Plan to Manufacture Patriot Missiles for Ukraine
This is a good deal for Japan, they get to sell the Patriot missiles to the U.S. and maintain their charade of not providing aid to Ukraine:
Japan will begin selling domestically produced missiles to the United States in a bid to bolster U.S. weapon supplies in the region. The U.S. will purchase approximately $19.6 million worth of Patriot Advanced Capability-3 interceptors, or PAC-3 missiles, the Japanese Defense Ministry’s agency for acquisition, technology and logistics said in a Sunday news release. The number of missiles included in the deal was not disclosed. (….)
“By providing Japanese-made PAC-3 missiles to the United States, Japan can indirectly assist Ukraine with much-needed air-defense systems, but without provoking a public backlash,” Brown told Stars and Stripes by email Wednesday.
You can read more at the link.
Japan will never get the Kurils back now. Also, this plan has a big snag, “A U.S. plan to use Japanese factories to boost production of Patriot air defence missiles – used by Ukraine to defend against Russian attacks – is being delayed by a shortage of a critical component manufactured by Boeing, four sources said.” https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/us-japan-patriot-missile-production-plan-hits-boeing-component-roadblock-2024-07-20/
The reality is that all of this production ramp up will not be ready until after Ukraine is finished.
None of this is for Ukraine.
It is for what comes after Ukraine.
Flyingsword, that article had an amazing narrative tweak.
It said a Russian missile hit a chidlren’s hospital.
Maybe somebody believe Russia is targeting children, attacking with shovels, will be out of missiles by spring 2021, and will have tanks in Lisbon by Christmas…
…some people believe an experimental vaccine made with experimental technology is safe and effective 3 months after its development.
Some people are too stupid to live.
The reality is, when a Russian missile is heading towards a military target and it gets intercepted by a Patriot, there is now a lot of wreckage falling randomly out of the sky.
Some of that can fall on a children’s hospital.
But people will believe what they want to believe… such as Russia is almost out of missiles, but always has one extra for a strategic orphanage.
@Flyingsword, the Russians were not going to give back the Kurils anyway. The best way for the Japanese to get the Kurils back would be the break up of the Russian Federation. Putin losing in Ukraine could lead to that though I doubt that will happen.