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Raytheon CEO Outlines Severe Depletion of Javelin and Stinger Stockpiles (13 Years production burned through in Ukraine)
National Review ^

Posted on 02/22/2023 2:04:39 PM PST by hcmama

Although Raytheon is producing 400 Javelins per month with Lockheed Martin as a manufacturing partner, he said, the ongoing fighting in Ukraine has burned through existing weapons stocks.

“The problem is we have consumed so much supply in the first ten months of the war,” he said. “We’ve essentially used up 13 years’ worth of Stinger production and five years’ worth of Javelin production.”

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Politics/Elections; Russia
KEYWORDS: bidenvoters; bloggers; debt; deficit; inflation; lloydaustin; lockheedmartin; nationalrepuke; raytheon; raytheonlobbyist; russia; ukraine; ukraineuberalles; war; whoops; youwantedbiden
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To: hcmama
.... Hmmmm .... Why do I have a feeling that this is all part of the plan.

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21 posted on 02/22/2023 2:51:13 PM PST by R_Kangel ("A nation of sheep will beget a nation ruled by wolves")
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To: hcmama

The war machine hustle


22 posted on 02/22/2023 2:51:21 PM PST by Third Person
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To: hcmama
Not quite sure who the Ukrainianians are but still, point made.


23 posted on 02/22/2023 2:54:33 PM PST by Drew68 (Ron DeSantis for President 2024)
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To: PubliusMM
These libturds have destroyed the US military and exposed us to the two most powerful adversaries we have ever faced.

I have an idea! Let’s offer free transgender surgeries to ALL war fighters?!? That’ll teach us!
24 posted on 02/22/2023 2:55:20 PM PST by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: hcmama

Should work out well when the Sino/Russia alliance gets uppity.


25 posted on 02/22/2023 2:58:45 PM PST by VTenigma (Conspiracy theory is the new "spoiler alert")
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To: hcmama

Lloyd Austin is certainly paying dividends to his former employer.


26 posted on 02/22/2023 3:00:05 PM PST by ConservativeInPA (Stupidly is a moral problem, not an intellectual problem. )
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To: Sacajaweau
Biden is stupid. He’s depleted oil reserves as well.

True. Biden is stupid and reprehensible, but he's just an empty suit doing as he is told by his advisors and the people actually in charge of the US government. I doubt Biden knows where he is most days until he is reminded.
27 posted on 02/22/2023 3:00:05 PM PST by SlipperySlope99
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To: Sacajaweau

Stupid or purposeful? I’ll leave the answer for debate.


28 posted on 02/22/2023 3:00:40 PM PST by VTenigma (Conspiracy theory is the new "spoiler alert")
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To: hcmama

Sure tell China how depleted our arms supply is. What could go wrong?
We have an idiot retard in the White House hell bent on destroying this country and a media participating in the downfall!
If China decides they are ready to knock this country over the time couldn’t be better for them!


29 posted on 02/22/2023 3:07:33 PM PST by 9422WMR (45 1. Lie, cheat, steal. It’s how the democRATS operate. )
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To: hcmama

One of the reasons given for us to support this war was to diminish Russian military capability. Oops.


30 posted on 02/22/2023 3:09:07 PM PST by suthener
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To: suthener

The US was dragged into this by the FJB minions to do exactly what Raytheon is sounding the alarm about - our stocks are severely depleted and our capability to defend ourselves has been compromised. It was intentionally done by Brandon on behalf of the PRC and the WEF


31 posted on 02/22/2023 3:13:03 PM PST by jpp113
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To: hcmama

The pentagon concentrated its money on producing expensive weapon systems but forgot to include enough ammo fore real war. Now paying the price.


32 posted on 02/22/2023 3:13:05 PM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: SpaceBar

You spelled China wrong.


33 posted on 02/22/2023 3:19:57 PM PST by Romulus
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To: SpaceBar

Javelins were never intended to be a primary antitank system. In a normal war, as planned anyway, these infantry ATGMs were there to protect the infantry should any enemy tanks get through all the other antitank systems, starting with air interdiction, artillery, tanks.

In Ukraine the lack of, or inadequacy of, all the other such systems made Javelin relatively more important and much more frequently used, contrary to US doctrine, but necessary due to these different circumstances.

The effect of that use of Javelins (and Stugna, NLAW, etc) was to effectively exterminate all the Russian active armored units in the first few months. The Russians have since proven incapable of resuming mobile warfare.


34 posted on 02/22/2023 3:26:15 PM PST by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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To: PGR88

“There are roughly 750 US foreign military bases; they are spread across 80 nations!”


35 posted on 02/22/2023 3:31:18 PM PST by dljordan
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To: SpaceBar

That is Foreign Military contract production line years. That does not count what the US and other countries already have in stock.

We probably buy and field the latest configurations of these missiles. That is probably not that same configurations the Ukrainians are getting.


36 posted on 02/22/2023 3:33:49 PM PST by XRdsRev (Justice for Bernell Trammell, Trump supporter, murdered in 2020)
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To: PGR88

Very little of US defense spending is spent on cheap and simple artillery shells.

And US doctrine does not contemplate months of artillery duels with massed guns. It assumes, implicitly, that such use and concentration of enemy artillery would be prevented by other US weapon systems and aerial interdiction.

Ukraine does not have anything like the USAF to call on, so they are reduced to playing the same game the Russians are. Both Ukrainians and Russians are reduced to this primitive sort of warfare by their limitations.


37 posted on 02/22/2023 3:34:43 PM PST by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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To: hcmama

But Russia is losing and Ukraine is winning bigly.


38 posted on 02/22/2023 3:36:49 PM PST by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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To: Fido969

DC politicians gonna be rich.


39 posted on 02/22/2023 3:53:27 PM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: hcmama

And we see one of the intended results of the generational quagmire we’ve been blundered into. Raytheon comes up Aces again. Care to bet that Biden Bro Construction Co. does so as well?


40 posted on 02/22/2023 3:54:05 PM PST by hardspunned (Former DC GOP globalist stooge)
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