Rob Stein

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556 appearances 4 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 11 Sep

Rob Stein’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The NPR Politics Podcast · Why is Todd Blanche's nomination as attorney general in limbo? · 31 Jul 2026 podcast

The Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington put out a report this week, and by digging through voice-verified

military budgets and that sort of thing. voice-verified

They say the stockpile of U.S. voice-verified

Patriot missiles has gone from about 2,300 before the Iran war to about 800 today. voice-verified

So around two-thirds of them have been used up. voice-verified

And a lot of countries want them. voice-verified

There's not enough, and it takes a long time to make them. voice-verified

Exactly. voice-verified

And that's not an easy thing to do when these missiles are coming at a minimum of 2,000 miles an hour, but can come much, much faster than that. voice-verified

So you need not only the missile launcher, you need a radar system and other components. voice-verified

And you have to be very precise. voice-verified

And the Patriot has proven quite adept at shooting down these ballistic missiles. voice-verified

Nobody else has developed a system as good. voice-verified

The U.S. voice-verified

has another more advanced system out there now. voice-verified

But this is the mainstay for doing this. voice-verified

Those missiles cost about $4 million apiece. voice-verified

If you place an order, it can take three or four years to get that order delivered from Lockheed Martin, which produces the missiles. voice-verified

So you can't just order them on Amazon and have them show up at your door within a matter of days. voice-verified

And, Tam, I'll just add that Ukraine was really getting its hopes up, both from the standpoint of Trump seeing more sympathetic to Ukraine, as Franco noted, but also that there might be some avenue to develop their own Patriot missiles for the Patriot systems that they have. voice-verified

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