Patriot Anti-Ballistic Missile

The United States Administration announced Wednesday, May 24, a $285 million contract for the sale to Ukraine of one NASAMS short-to-medium-range anti-aircraft missile system (SAM) and related equipment. “Ukraine has an urgent need to build up weapons to defend against Russian missile and air strikes. The acquisition and effective use of these weapons will strengthen […]

Submitted by Steve Brown…
Certainly the US military limits information about particular missile defense systems deployed at particular bases and quite rightly so. However the US media has publicly stated that there are no Patriot missile defense systems at US military bases in Iraq.  It’s important to know the truth, in consideration of the Iran strikes on US bases in Iraq on January 8th.