MIM-104 Patriot

Turkey condemned on March 26 ballistic missile attacks that struck various cities of Saudi Arabia.

Turkey and the United States are in talks over the procurement of the Patriot missile system, a Turkish official said. A senior U.S. official is expected to pay a visit to Ankara on March 31 to discuss the issue. 

The price at which the United States will agree to sell to Poland the missile defense system Patriot (PAC-3 +) is unacceptable for Warsaw, Deputy Defense Minister Bartosz Kownacki  said in an interview with Defense News.

Sweden announced on Nov. 7 it has chosen the US Patriot missile defense system over that of a Franco-Italian rival, in an estimated one billion-euro deal.

Yemeni rebels on Saturday targeted an airport in Saudi Arabia’s capital with a ballistic missile, according to Yemen’s Houthi-controlled Defense Ministry.

But the missile was intercepted over northeast Riyadh, the Saudi Ministry of Defense said in a statement carried on government-backed Al-Arabiya television.

The US Department of State has approved a potential sale of Patriot air defense systems to Romania worth USD 3.9 billion.

This was announced by the US Defense Security Cooperation Agency, Sputnik reported.

The US State Department said on July 11 it is ready to approve the sale of Patriot air defense systems to Romania, a $3.9 billion deal likely to infuriate Russia.

"The State Department has made a determination approving a possible foreign military sale to Romania for Patriot air defense systems, related support and equipment," the State Department said.

The US installed an air defense system named Patriot missiles in Lithuania. These missiles are the first to emerge in the Baltic region, where Russia has supremacy in the airspace. The defense system will be used during NATO military training "Tobruq Legacy-2017", which begins today and will continue until July 22, the Lithuanian Defense Ministry announced.

Trump's visit also strengthened Poland's defense. Wednesday night, the U.S. agreed to sell Patriot missile defense systems to Poland in a memorandum, Poland's Defense Minister Antoni Macierewicz said, Voice of America reported.

A “very close” US ally used a $3 million Patriot missile to shoot down a quadcopter drone — which sells on Amazon for $200, according to reports.

“They shot it down with a Patriot missile,” Gen. David Perkins said in a video shared by the US Army on YouTube, the Independent of the UK reported. “Now that worked, they got it, OK, and we love Patriot missiles.”