ABSTRACT Picture this: It’s the early dawn of 2022, and the skies over Europe suddenly feel more vulnerable than they have since the Cold War. Russian missiles streak across borders into Ukraine, shattering not just infrastructure but the illusion of post-Cold War security that many European nations had clung to. In boardrooms at Raytheon—now part … Leggi tutto European Air Defence Evolution: Patriot Expansion and ESSI in Geopolitical Tensions 2025