❗️The Atlantic reports Lockheed Martin and Raytheon view licensing Patriot production to Ukraine as potentially disadvantageous.

❗️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.