Article states:..... about $7 billion in weapons and equipment that was taken off the shelves so it could be delivered quickly to Ukraine.
Might explain the $7 Billion US took from Ukraine?
After all, endless wars are just conventions to showcase new products.
Like a giant, mass murdering Tupperware party.
Ha, ha, ha........ what irony
For the recent past, Vladimir Putin has been in Syria where he invites Generals as customers to see Russian arms up close. Putin flies planes all over near NATO and American Borders to get free media advertising for Russian arms. (Russia has for sale oil, gas, wheat and arms, no manufactured products)
Putin starts a war and American arms manufacturers reap the benefits while his touted weapons lie for the world to see in rusted roadside hulks all over Ukraine
And, of course, Democrats LOVE to sell our tech to China.
DemocRATs are the enemy.
Always have been.
Always will be.
Until.......we do something about it..........
I have sold most of my stocks...except for a few.
One is Lockheed Martin.
Our #1 product in the US is Arms. We are the worlds largest arms dealer. This war in Ukraine is our sales demonstrations.
Didn’t Ike warn us about such goings on?
AP is fake news
And, Timber wants to spend endless amounts of taxpayer money on a war that has absolutely nothing to do with our national security.
How is the money from this war filtering down to you, Timber? That's the real question with anyone obsessed with keeping us involved in this war.
“Allies”... until China tells them otherwise.
.gov still hasn’t figured out that your real friends and allies don’t require handouts and cash infusions.
$33 million is the lesser part of the value of the HIMARS transfers. The vehicle is pretty simple and cheap as these things go. The missiles though are likely the greater cost by far. The US might have sent @ 5,000 rounds so far, at $100K each, thats $500 million.
But even that, given its crippling, even decisive effect, is cheap at the price. It seems to have pecked the Russian army into paralysis.
Also note the price. Attempting to intercept HIMARS shots is a losing proposition. One needs several times more SAM launchers than HIMARS, and at least an equal supply of more expensive supersonic SAM munitions, to only partially protect a target from a HIMARS barrage.
Everybody needs HIMARS!
And I will modify my advice re Taiwan - Taiwan needs a few hundred HIMARS. The Chinese coast is well within range of the bigger ATACMS missiles. These should be able to do a number on Chinese air bases, munitions depots, ports, SAMs and missile infrastructure pretty deep into the interior. HIMARS is highly road-mobile, so almost immune to Chinese ballistic missile attack, scooting around Taiwans messy hill terrain.
And I'm sure we will supply it, even if our forces are caught short, AS LONG AS THERE'S A PAYOFF TO HUNTER AND "The BIG GUY".
The contracted items could take several years to come in.
It would seem there are no contingency / already thought out plans for seriously ramping up production. In the CBS(?) piece on HIMARS, the CEO of the plant that makes the missiles indicated they could increase production by a measly 25%; more than that they'd have to study. (I'm not sure if "study" was the exact word he used, but, that was basically the gist of it.) I nearly passed out. How can no one think ahead about such a thing?
$$$$$
Our Father, who art in Heaven, Hallowed by thy name...
I wonder what he thinks about the country founded on the promises of those who won Liberty from Britain with his hand, now is the leading killer on Earth, year in and year out. Without the Arms industry and the constant war footing against people who are not attacking us. We have a large hand in the murders.
Self defense is fine, but we instigate the wars, sell both sides guns and grain. The arms industry makes a killing, and they then kick back in the form of donations, and no show jobs for Generals.
Our nation from the top down, is despicable and I am embarrassed. The middle and lower class get along fine, I love you all my brothers. The upper class and the servant nay Ruling class rolls in dough, making bread with the blood they shed.
We need to have a national day of prayer to ask forgiveness, not for the dead on 9-11 only, but for all those who die because our Servants do our heritage dirty.
I’m not a rocket scientist, but should we put these out there
for China and Russia to copy or figure out how to defeat?
The USA could easily sell off its older, mothballed stuff to India and get political beanie points