Ukraine wants to make its own Patriot missiles. That's a bad idea.

When Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky arrived at the G-7 summit in Evian, France, last week, he was ready with his latest set of military and economic requests. Near the top of his list was a new item: a license to produce Patriot anti-ballistic missile interceptors inside Ukraine.Ukraine’s deficit of air defenses is, at this point, well-known. The country was running low on air defense interceptors even before February, when the Iran war diverted much of the limited supply away from Kyiv and toward the Middle East. Zelensky argues that giving Ukraine a license to produce Patriot missile