Europe Urges Spain and Greece to Part With Expiring Patriot Missiles
Allies are practically begging Madrid and Athens to share air defense interceptors that are currently sitting in warehouses slowly reaching their expiration dates.
It turns out both Spain and Greece are sitting on some of the largest stockpiles of Patriot PAC-2 interceptors in Europe. And here is the kicker: those missiles are steadily approaching their manufacturer expiration dates.
Norway is even offering to step in with hard cash to buy the missiles outright and ship them north. As Kaja Kallas bluntly put it, keeping interceptors in storage until they go stale makes remarkably little sense when air defense systems are needed elsewhere right now.
Yet Athens is still worried about tensions with its neighbors, while other allies are busy bickering over whether money should go to American hardware or domestic European alternatives. The absurd reality is that critical air defense interceptors risk expiring on warehouse shelves while global factories face years-long backlogs.
Bureaucracy really peaks when weapon stockpiles are treated more like dairy products waiting to hit their 'best before' date than tools to save lives.
Source: Bloomberg
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