Posted on 04/08/2017 8:01:16 PM PDT by Trump20162020
Raytheon, the company that makes the Tomahawk missiles used in the air strikes on Syria by the United States, is rising in early stock trading Friday.
Investors seem to be betting President Trump's decision to retaliate against Syria after the chemical attack on Syrian citizens earlier this week may mean the Pentagon will need more Tomahawks.
The Department of Defense asked for $2 billion over five years to buy 4,000 Tomahawks for the U.S. Navy in its fiscal 2017 budget last February.
Nearly five dozen Tomahawk cruise missiles were launched at military bases in Syria from U.S. warships in the Mediterranean Sea late Thursday.
Raytheon (RTN) wasn't the only defense stock rising Friday either. Lockheed Martin (LMT), which partners with Raytheon on the Javelin missile launcher system and also makes Hellfire missiles, gained nearly 1%.
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Nearly five dozen Tomahawk cruise missiles were launched at military bases in Syria from U.S. warships in the Mediterranean Sea late Thursday.
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It was more than 5 dozen, they launched 61 total, 2 malfunctioned.
is someone on a conservative forum going to scream about Halliburton, or the military-industrial complex?
I’ve seen everything else lately.
I’m pissed that two failed.
I’ve heard 29 hit the base.
61-2-29=30
Where did they go?
So, Raytheon Missile Systems stock rises, they get a replenishment order for 60 Tomahawks and employment rises again, and Syria is slapped down. Winning, winning, winning.
If it’s a one time thing, fine. We have no business going into Syria.
“is someone on a conservative forum going to scream about Halliburton, or the military-industrial complex?”
Wasn’t Eisenhower a conservative?
they’re in the secret base where the malaysian airways flight is hidden, and where the missiles that took down tower two came from.
it was a secret, but thank God some random internet dude figured it out.
*look, something shiny!*
dude, try harder.
I like Ike! (Well, I did!!)
Can’t wait to see my idiot Senator “Fast Ed Markey” be for the jobs created at Raytheon. But against the Thomahawks.
Eisenhower understood the strategic importance of maintaining a strong US-Saudi relationship too.
A strong relationship is one thing. The House of Saud using its petrodollars to buy up the US government is quite another.
I somehow suspect that a patriot like Ike might have objected to the US military being turned into the Janissaries of the Saudi Caliphate.
Will the taxpayer be reimbursed for the 2 duds?
And Kim Yung Un and the Ayatollahs took notice.
That’s the real gain.
“Bomb all you want, we’ll make more.”
SPECTOR
In WW2 we built ONE BOMBER AN HOUR at the Willow Run Factory run by a certain fellow named Ford.
TRUMP wants to mobilize this Country for War, he better get those factories opening in the USA...and we will see
ONE HUNDRED TOMAHAWKS A MINUTE.
According to this ancient newsreel, it was one every 55 minutes:
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