Kirby: Patriot, i missili NASAM “nel regno di centinaia” saranno consegnati all’Ucraina in 16 mesi con le prime spedizioni nelle prossime settimane

White House advisor John Kirby:

*[…] the United States government has made the difficult but necessary decision to reprioritize, near term, planned deliveries of foreign military sales to other countries of particularly Patriot and NASAM missiles to go to Ukraine instead.*

*[…] We have, of course, informed all the affected countries that we are taking this extraordinary step. And we’re making every effort to minimize any negative impact to countries with affected foreign military sales cases. If any of our other partners were ever in a situation similar to Ukraine’s, we would go to extraordinary lengths to support their security as well.*

*[…] And we’re grateful to the nations that we’ve reached out to and have not only understood but many of them have been fully supportive of this decision.*

*[…] what I can tell you is that we expect the first shipments from this reprioritization of air defense missiles to Ukraine will happen over coming weeks.*

*[…] it’s in the realm of hundreds that we’re talking about, as I said, over the course of the rest of this fiscal year and into next fiscal year, the entire fiscal year for ‘25. So in the realm of the hundreds.*

*[…] As I said in my opening statement, it is in the realm of the hundreds, and it’s both Patriot interceptor missiles and NASAM interceptor missiles. Both programs.*

And each one should come in it’s very own M2 Bradley shipping container.