On Tuesday, 18 November 2025, the U.S. Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) published the U.S. Department of State’s approval for a potential sale to Ukraine of a support package for the MIM-104 Patriot air and missile defense systems, valued at up to 105 million USD.
Photo: General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
According to the published information, the government in Kyiv requested authorization to purchase articles and services related to the sustainment of the Patriot air-defense system, including the modernization of M901 launchers to the M903 configuration; classified and unclassified load lists and authorized lists of ground-support equipment; other necessary services, auxiliary equipment, spare parts, support, training, and accessories; as well as other related logistics and program-support elements. The contractors will be RTX Corporation and Lockheed Martin.
Modernizing the M901 launchers to the M903 configuration will allow the use of PAC-3 MSE (Patriot Advanced Capability-3 Missile Segment Enhancement) interceptor missiles.
Ukraine operates approximately 10–12 Patriot batteries (the exact number is classified), supplied through donations from the United States (3 batteries), Germany (5 batteries), Norway (1 battery), the Netherlands (5 launchers), Romania (1 battery), and Israel (number unknown). New donations from European states were made possible by NATO’s new assistance-financing mechanism called PURL (Prioritised Ukraine Requirements List), announced on 14 July of this year during a meeting in Washington between U.S. President Donald Trump and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte.
It cannot be ruled out that the modernization package concerns former Israeli Yahalom systems, meaning MIM-104D Patriot units with M901 launchers for PAC-2 GEM-T missiles.
It is also worth noting that on 29 August of this year, the U.S. Department of State approved a potential sale to Ukraine of the first Patriot support package worth up to 179.1 million USD. On 16 September, the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump approved two military-aid packages for Ukraine, each worth 500 million USD under the PURL mechanism – details of the packages have not been disclosed.
