Posted on 07/09/2023 8:38:15 PM PDT by Duke C.
Raytheon has called in retired engineers to teach its employees how to build the Stinger missiles heavily used by Ukraine’s military—using blueprints drawn up during the Carter administration.
It’s the latest example of a private company working to ramp up production of a now-in-demand weapon that the Pentagon hasn’t purchased in decades.
“Stinger's been out of production for 20 years, and all of a sudden in the first 48 hours [of the war], it's the star of the show and everybody wants more,” Wes Kremer, the president of RTX’s Raytheon division, said during an interview last week at the Paris Air Show.
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That’s going to cost them.
It would if I were one of the retirees who was likely forced out.
No good deed goes unpunished.
They’d have to at least link my pension to my personal Inflation rate.
Plus pay my Federal, State and Property taxes forevermore.
I would want payment in advance and a huge bonus to start.
.....and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and learn of war no more”
“And they gathered to a place called, Armageddon.”
So, this is a good time to pre-order!?
oh no...not those awful 50yro white males....please tell it ain’t so...
This can’t succeed. Slide Rules are extinct and that era’s TI calculators have atrophied!
Twenty years is not that long ago. Is everyone from that era with the knowledge now retired?
This is what happens when institutional knowledge is not passed down because companies insist on hiring those that think their degree in gender students and grievance posturing is sufficient to power the world.
Did no one in our military think it might be important to make sure those companies had a plan to pass on this knowledge to a few of the younger generation?
This is the type of thing I fear happening to our infrastructure such as the power grid after all that can actually “do” are pushed out and gone and those in charge know nothing regarding the systems they are left to maintain.
It’s much like when the tech guy who builds your company’s computer system leaves to go elsewhere. If no one else knows where the bailing wire and chewing gum connections are located then you are in a deep spot when the system crashes.
Make sure to build more cluster bombs for the libtards to kill civilians with
“Raytheon Calls in Retirees to Help Restart Stinger Missile Production”
Take that Putin!!!! We make sure to keep our production capability intact so well that we have to go to nursing homes to restart it.
“oh no...not those awful 50yro white males....please tell it ain’t so...”
LOL, but more like 80 year old white males.
Right - they have to call back a bunch of old white guys to get the job done. Probably some of whom were put out to pasture to allow for lots of diverse millennials and zoomers.
Old white guys - 1
Woke crap - 0
“Did no one in our military think it might be important to make sure those companies had a plan to pass on this knowledge to a few of the younger generation?”
The problem is that there aren’t really any incentives for people to stay with a company, as pensions and retirement medical care have been wiped out, at least based on what my cousin tells me. So people simply come, work a few years, then go once a better offer is secured. I suspect the Nursing Home generation was the last bunch to have a ‘traditional’ retirement package, so they stayed long enough to know the ropes.
We should be THANKING Putin, for if he didn’t invade Ukraine, most of the people in the Nursing Homes would have ‘checked out’ before the TOTAL IDIOTS in DC figured out just how exposed we are.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0vy33Br_3s
And a four week Emperors Package at Caesar’s Palace.....and some women you want made into American citizens, no questions asked...
This all begs the question: is the Stinger the best portable AA missile that we have? If so, we should have tens of thousands in storage, and if not then why build them instead of the more modern one. This doesn’t make much sense.
That said, I hope that the retirees drive a hard bargain and get their pensions bumped up a bunch, in addition to a bunch of salary. Maybe , in addition to teaching the newer generation how to make Stingers, they can also toughen them up. Oh, and maybe Raytheon and the other contractors will start putting away blueprints and procedure books so that this doesn’t happen again.
Blue prints don’t tell the whole story. It’s probably like not being able to build a Saturn V now
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