U.S. Eyes Giving Ukraine Patriot Missile Defense Systems.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin could sign off on the plan as soon as this week Graph: A Patriot antimissile defense launcher near Rzeszow, Poland, earlier this year. In the spring 2020, the U.S. pulled two Patriot missile batteries from Saudi Arabia and two others from the Middle East, signaling waning concerns about Iran's military escalation. Advertisement - Scroll to Continue Because the Patriot missile system is defensive in nature, it doesn't raise the same concerns within the Biden administration about escalation as other U.S.-provided weapons systems. [Extracted from the article]