New Delhi, June 14 -- KYIV - On the night of the worst barrage Kyiv had seen in two months, Ukrainian air force crews redistributed the city's remaining Patriot interceptors between battery positions and waited. The missiles they needed were sitting in a factory in Camden, Arkansas - or already spoken for by someone else.

That arithmetic has come to define Ukraine's air war in the summer of 2026. The New York Times reported on Saturday, citing Ukrainian military officials and Western arms experts, that supplies of interceptor missiles for Patriot air defense systems cannot keep pace with Russia's sharply intensified ballistic missile campaign. The same week, Lockheed Martin's vice-president for strategy and business development for missi...