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    Per 1,7 miliardi di dollari la Spagna conferma l’acquisto di nuovi sistemi di difesa aerea Patriot dagli Stati Uniti

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    1. GalacticGurll on

      1.7B$ is steep but air defense is one of those things you only miss when you don’t have it

    4. GrandAdmiralSnackbar on

      All these defence systems are great, but I am worried that all we seem to do is buy/build defensive capability. If you want to defeat Russia if they attack, you need to be able to destroy their oil infrastructure and logistics on day one of the war. That would take, for the EU as a whole thousands to tens of thousands longrange cruise missiles, whether ground-, air- or sealaunched. Do we have those? To deter Russia, it would be good if we could show that kind of capability. They need their oilfields, refineries and terminals. They need their railwaybridges, their munitionsfactories, their military airfields. Europe needs to be able to destroy them if Russia ever becomes crazy enough to attack.

    5. D00M1R4 on

      I mean nice to have, but if somethings reaches spain through air we have some other problems no?

    9. RumHam69_ on

      Hope Europe will invest more in SAMP/T in the future, we can’t let the dependence on the US grow even more.

    10. ulyssebyob on

      Before anyone comments on Patriot not being EU products, it’s important to understand that procurement takes years and as much as I would have loved for Spain to buy SAMP/T instead, it does not go against what was recently decided by the EU in its SAFE funding program.

    11. AttitudeSimilar9347 on

      A very bad decision IMHO. They should have joined the SAMP/T consortium with France and Italy and been part of the European effort in AD. The UK should have joined it as well, we already operate Aster missiles in the Royal Navy, the skills and experience are there. There is still time I hope.

    14. GongTzu on

      Ffs. It’s time to untie EU from the US, this is not the right way.

    16. Equivalent_Plan_5653 on

      Pouring more money into your enemy’s economy. Thank you Spain for undermining Europe a little bit more.

    17. ReplyResponsible2228 on

      I still dont understand why Spain has not given Ukraine any Patriot systems considering how low the danger is to them

    18. mpanase on

      This might be the price to pay for not spending 5% ?

      Gotta buy some yankee stuff?

    21. Inevitable_Spare_777 on

      Anyone who wants to comment on sourcing domestically in Europe should understand the shortfalls of the SAMP/T.

      https://cepa.org/article/dimmed-the-rockets-red-glare/

      Simply put, there are roughly 5X the amount of Patriot interceptors produced each year. Currently, only 2-300 SAMP/T are produced annually. That’s roughly 1/5 the amount of long-range missiles Russia can produce.

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