U.S. defense companies Raytheon and Lockheed Martin are concerned that licensing Patriot missile production to Ukraine could lead to Ukraine improving and producing the missiles more efficiently than the United States.

❗️The Atlantic reports Lockheed Martin and Raytheon view licensing Patriot production to Ukraine as potentially disadvantageous. Publicly, the manufacturers cite intellectual property theft and technology-transfer risks. According to the report, their deeper concern is that Ukraine could improve the system and then manufacture Patriots at greater scale, faster and at significantly lower cost than existing U.S. production lines. #Ukraine

🇺🇲 US defence companies Raytheon and Lockheed Martin fear that, if granted a licence, #Ukraine could improve Patriot interceptor missiles and produce them faster and at a significantly lower cost than the United States. https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2026/08/10/8048014/ #usa