Posted on 04/26/2022 8:43:26 AM PDT by captain_jonas
https://twitter.com/marcusreports/status/1518937847201476611
https://www.reuters.com/article/ukraine-crisis-stingers-idINL2N2VR2OF
Raytheon just said they cannot make any more stinger missiles, all of them have been given to Ukraine and no more can be made because certain parts require rare minerals that are only found in Russia.
Maybe zhao biden can buy back the stinger missiles he left for the taliban after his surrender in Afghanistan.
Are you kidding me? Really? What kind of stupid cow dung is this!?
We’ve outsourced much of our domestic manufacturing and mining of various materials overseas over the past few decades, dontcha know.
Combination of free trade cheapness and environmentalists who claim to want to reduce pollution but have no problem if occurs elsewhere.
Could be intentionally misleading...
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Or just plain old stupidity and mismanagement.
Maybe we will finally focus on canceling student loan debt.
I'm sure we've got better stuff available.
Exactly. We are unloading our old, surplus weaponry to the Ukrainians.
It is proving surprisingly effective against Russian tech.
This crap is unacceptable for National Security.
Does anyone else get the feeling that when the food shortages hit other countries that this admin will start giving them our food?
Isn’t Raytheon the very same defense contractor that Fat A@@ POS Lloyd Austin used to be a board member of????? Any conflict of interest here?
Wonder what HIS CUT will be of this new deal?
I hope the chronically distracted, and limitlessly stupid American public enjoys being part of the one world government that’s coming.
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They don’t care. Ignorance is bliss.
Why do we need missiles? They’ve been gathering dust as the border is invaded on a daily basis.
Well then pray tell, do tell it what it says good man.
Likely that the particular version (likely older) we sent to Ukraine is no longer available but that does not mean that our current version is no longer procurable.
Hard to imagine they could be this stupid, on the other hand maybe not.
Our DOD is obviously out to lunch, as usual. And why doesn’t someone tell Raytheon to STFU?
Just buy them from the Ukrainians that are probably selling them on the black market
The Avenger air defense system uses Stinger missiles. It too is old but still in use. Or was?
No worries.. Biden can just tap into our Strategic Stinger Missle Reserves!
It’s the same with FGM-148 Javelins. By the 90s it was clear that these weapons are meant to be given out to allied infantries because America itself will fight with air supremacy and the American infantry will carry something better.
America didn’t lose a SINGLE TANK in the Iraq war!
“... certain parts require rare minerals that are only found in Russia.”
Where are you getting that information? It is in neither of the articles you link to.
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