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President Donald Trump said Wednesday that the United States was working to allow Ukraine to produce Patriot air defense systems, potentially offering Kyiv a new source of protection from Russian missile attacks.<\/p>\n

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Speaking alongside Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey, Trump unveiled the emerging plans to grant Ukraine a license to produce the sophisticated, U.S.-designed weapon. But the arrangement won\u2019t address Kyiv\u2019s immediate shortage of the interceptors it needs to defend against Russian ballistic missiles.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of the things we\u2019re going to be talking about is we\u2019re going to give you a license to make patriots,\u201d Trump told Zelenskyy. \u201cThat\u2019s pretty cool, right?\u201d<\/p>\n

The remarks came after a massive Russian attack<\/u><\/span> on Monday killed at least 22 people, and Ukraine\u2019s air force said all 29 ballistic missiles fired in the barrage reached their targets.<\/p>\n

Trump was asked if he would be willing to provide Ukraine with Patriot missiles in the near term.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t have that many,\u201d Trump replied. \u201cWe need them for ourselves, too.\u201d<\/p>\n

He expressed confidence that Ukraine\u2019s talent and technical know-how would allow the country to \u201cstart making them very quickly.\u201d<\/p>\n

But creating a new production line for one of the world\u2019s most complex air defense weapons would be a huge undertaking. U.S. manufacturers, under pressure from the Trump administration to unclog industrial bottlenecks, are struggling to expand Patriot production rapidly enough to replenish U.S. stockpiles while meeting demand from Ukraine and other allies.<\/p>\n

Trump didn\u2019t specify whether the emerging deal to produce Patriots referred to launchers, interceptor missiles, or components of the system. Trump also acknowledged that the idea had not been worked out with the U.S. defense contractors that produce the system.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe haven\u2019t informed the company of that yet, but that\u2019ll work out all right,\u201d Trump said. \u201cSure, they\u2019ll be thrilled.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Patriot production has increased from roughly 300 to about 600 missiles a year, while the Pentagon and the defense industry want that to increase in the coming years to an annual rate of 2,000, according to Mark Cancian of the Center for Strategic and International Studies.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re talking about maybe 2030 to do that,\u201d he said. \u201cThat just takes a long time to get the facilities in there, and then get the production actually occurring.\u201d<\/p>\n

The pressure on Patriot supplies has intensified during the U.S. conflict with Iran. CSIS estimated that American forces used as many as 1,430 Patriot interceptors during the first 39 days of the military campaign, from an estimated inventory of about 2,330. The think tank projected that rebuilding U.S. stocks to prewar levels could take until mid-2029.<\/p>\n

Zelensky said in May on CBS\u2019s \u201cFace the Nation<\/u><\/span>\u201d that he had asked the Biden and Trump administrations for production licenses to boost supplies for Ukraine and other countries.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will increase the production of Patriot missiles,\u201d Zelenskyy said at the time. \u201cIt will be very helpful for us, it will be very helpful for Middle East, for everybody whom United States will decide to help.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump on Wednesday framed the prospect of Ukraine producing Patriots as a way for it to take more responsibility for meeting its own needs.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis way you can\u2019t complain that we\u2019re not giving them enough,\u201d Trump said. \u201cI said, \u2018Make them yourself.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Zelenskyy welcomed the idea, calling the Patriot \u201cthe best antiballistic system\u201d available.<\/p>\n

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