Israel has hundreds of Patriot interceptors to give Ukraine, former senior US official says

Israel has more than half a dozen retired Patriot missile batteries and hundreds of interceptors in its reserves that could be sent to Ukraine, as the US looks to beef up Kyiv’s air-defences from Russian attacks, a former senior Pentagon official wrote on X.

“Trump has made clear he wants to provide Ukraine with more air defense assets. With that in mind, I think the best place to get them from with the least amount of trade offs against US and allied readiness is from Israel's stocks of retired Patriot PAC-2 missiles/batteries,” Dan Caldwell, a former senior advisor to US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth, wrote.

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