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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I thought the GenZs are now known as Gen “Zero”?
Seems like common sense that if you haven’t been interested in building up stockpiles or tools of war, good policy would be to quit bullying and fomenting perpetual wars all over the globe.
Trump was right when he called the elitists stupid. They are not as capable as they think they are.
I say this tongue in cheek, having written many "procedure documentations," some useful, some silly.
That’s what the dems want...easy pickens’ for our enemies.
So, 30 years ago, we were 30 somethings and could make missiles because we also had 50 somethings to guide us, but the current generation of sissified 30 somethings cannot make missiles and the companies got rid of the 50 somethings.
Someone want to prove how China’s education system teaching kids calculus in elementary school cannot beat the US in a war? I think they could clobber us without breaking a sweat.
I still have two slide rules, and I use my 1985 HP-15C calculator nearly every day. RPN rules!
I will say that the only TI calculator I ever owned died after about two years.
“Pale, stale and male” could become a good thing again.
90 year olds in Massachusetts and 70 year olds in Tennessee will be packing up and moving to Tucson?
There’s BIG money in them thar puppet wars.
Thanks.
I never saw that movie, nor that clip.
It’s pretty darn funny.
There is the Pentagon, and there is Raytheon.
I’ve written a lot of documentation as well. The trick is, nobody reads them. Most don’t even know they are there.
Maybe not from the gooberment to raytheon but from raytheon to the employee... eventually what it takes but as low as possible.
If cost of the employe is not an issue... Cha ching!
They also face the issue of parity to existing employees. Circumvented by hiring as conslutants.
Right about the Ukes but flogging what is looking to be a dead horse. We both know this is blackmail to xiden. He will spend our last penny to keep them quiet about his activities.
Pretty sad that the younger generations seem to be useless.
Kind of like the movie, Battleship where they pull the old Navy guys out of the retirement home to run the old ship.
Oh, a lot of people read them, but their eyes glaze over while they are doing so. Yet, their training records are updated show that they spent some time in front of the procedures, LOL.
This can’t succeed. Slide Rules are extinct and that era’s TI calculators have atrophied!
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Own several slide rules and an HP 41CX.
Use them daily.
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