I HOPE "second-hand" doesn't mean they have been already fired before...:

Spain has agreed to acquire a second-hand battery of U.S.-made Patriot missiles to boost its defenses, the government said Sunday.

Spain's Socialist government will buy the weapons from Germany, fulfilling an accord undertaken by its conservative predecessor, according to a statement from Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero's office.

The purchase was approved at a Cabinet meeting on Friday but not widely reported until Sunday.