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Advanced air defense launchers are useless when domestic assembly lines cannot produce terminal hit-to-kill interceptors.

European allies find themselves with high-tech launchers but zero operational defense against modern ballistic threats because their local factories are tooled only for legacy, non-hit-to-kill ammunition.

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World & Geopolitics
The EU Origin Rule and the Battle for Ukraine's Patriot Exemption

Europe's upcoming assembly line only produces PAC-2 missiles, leaving allies unable to assemble the hit-to-kill PAC-3 interceptors required to stop modern ballistic threats.

World & Geopolitics
NATO's Air Defenses 'Beyond Critical' as Iran War Depletes US Patriot Interceptor Stockpile

Launchers without sufficient hit-to-kill interceptor production leave European allies operationally naked against ballistic threats, exactly as the launcher-without-missile law predicts.