>>64069929
>Trusting Boeing to meet any kind of deliveries
Patriot supply lines were basically at a bottleneck standstill because of Boeing
>Be Boeing
>Shit and moan about wanting a piece of the Patriot production pie
>Be granted production rights for the seeker heads
>Japan gets a production license to produce PAC3 MSE missiles entirely domestically
>Shit and moan and lobby harder
>Japan doesn't get seeker head production rights and has to rely on Boeing for for that sole component
>Seeker head production is already behind schedule with Boeing unable to meet demands
>Ukraine war happens
>RTX and Raytheon decide to ramp up production due to supply being sent to Ukraine
>Japan even offers to send their production to the US to help maintain supply
>Boeing refuses to increase production rate at all even though they weren't even hitting delivery timelines pre increase
>Basically forced at gunpoint to increase production and still fail to hit the new target that was set by the US
Boeing lobbied to inject itself into a missile program that wasn't even theirs and proceeded to shit up the place and cause problems for literally everyone. Although Boeing is probably absolutely foaming at the mouth that anyone is still interested in buying Apaches after a bunch of countries cut their orders for MQ-9s instead.