Defense company Raytheon has secured a $3.7 billion contract to supply Ukraine with a batch of Patriot GEM-T surface-to-air missiles.
RIA Novosti, citing open-source documents, reported that the agreement was announced on April 14, 2026. It provides for GEM-T missile production at a facility in the German city of Shrobenkhausen. The missiles in question belong to the Patriot PAC-2 family and are equipped with a high-explosive fragmentation warhead.
According to the report’s authors, the US Army moved away from that technology back in 2013. Since then, American forces have relied on the more advanced PAC-3 MSE missiles, which use a hit-to-kill intercept method.
The report also noted that this is not the first contract of its kind. In January 2024, NATO’s procurement agency signed a deal for the delivery of up to 1,000 GEM-T missiles to Germany, the Netherlands, Romania and Spain, while the United States itself continues shifting to the newer PAC-3 MSE.
Earlier, Ukrainian Defence Minister Mikhail Fedorov said that following a meeting of the Ukraine contact group, European countries had pledged $4.6 billion to Kiev for air defence systems. Norway and the Netherlands also committed about $1 billion for drones.