Japan to send Patriot missiles to US as stocks dwindle

SpaceWar.com reports: “Japan loosened arms export controls Friday to enable it to sell domestically made Patriot missiles to the United States, which is seeking to stock up after sending the weapon systems to Ukraine.

Washington has supplied Kyiv with the highly-effective Patriot air defence systems as part of the massive Western military aid effort to help President Volodymyr Zelensky’s country fight back against Russia’s invasion.

‘We welcome the Government of Japan’s announcement today that it will transfer Patriot interceptor missiles to the United States to replenish US inventories,’ the White House said in a statement.

Japan produces the PAC3 surface-to-air missile defence system, paying a licence fee to US defence firm Lockheed Martin which developed the system.

Japan strictly controls the export of arms under its pacifist constitution, which limits its military capacity to ostensibly defensive measures…”

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