The US armed forces this week handed over the Patriot Air Defense References from the warehouses in Israel to Poland in order to deliver them to Ukraine. About 90 such missiles were transferred in total.
US military transport aircraft delivered shells to Zhushuv-the main logistics hub of military assistance to Ukraine. This was reported by Axios, referring to sources who know the operation.
The publication notes that in April of the Israeli Air Force last year, the Patriot air defense system was officially disabled more than 30 years after its United States was first transferred to Tel Aviv during the Gulf of Persian.
This system has become less relevant, since Israel has developed its own air defense and most Patriot batteries were used for training or remained in warehouses.
Immediately after the withdrawal of Patriot complexes and storage missiles, negotiations began between the governments of Ukraine, the USA and Israel regarding the transfer of these missiles to the ARSENAL APU. Then the possibility of sending missiles, complexes or their individual components from Israel to the United States, and then to Ukraine, was discussed.
So it is quite possible that now a scheme could be implemented with the replacement of American reserves of missiles with Israeli, and in this case, Israel did not carry out direct supply of weapons to Ukraine, which Tel Aviv fears.
The speaker of the office of the Prime Minister of Israel confirmed the return of Patriot systems in the United States, adding that "
At the same time, the publication notes that recently the Osintdefender project discovered flights of the US Air Force military transport aircraft from Israel to Poland.
They arrived at the Hatzerim airbase in the south of Israel, and from there flew to Polish Zhovuv - the main logistic hub of military assistance, which then goes to Ukraine.
Sources reported that about 90 cross-svercators were transferred to Patriot, which Ukraine can use with the existing batteries of these complexes.
In addition to missiles, radars and other equipment were also transferred, which was first sent to the United States for repair.