Love, your favorite defense contractor
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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Raytheon and Lockheed - need to get some investin done...
Pretty sure inventory depletion was the goal.
That’s exactly what I was thinking. Does something seem wrong here?
Shouldn’t there be a massive amount of burned out armament laying around somewhere?
The western world’s war stocks nearly depleted... doesn’t seem like enough damage has been done for that.
“13 years of Stinger production and 5 years of Javelin production were used up in Ukraine in only 10 months.”
A person that I went to college with tells me that it would be relatively easy to step up production of military hardware (so not nearly 13 years), but that the lead times they’re getting from China for raw materials (particularly rare earths), piece parts, tooling, and test equipment means that it will be at least several years before they can even begin to ramp up production. Obviously they looked to US sources, but most are now gone.
You think this is stupidity?
I read in the paper this morning that he plans to drain another 22 million barrels in FY23.
So produce more. Expand your plant. Build one in Poland.
I noticed when the Russians started getting pushed backwards months and months ago people started trying to convince themselves that Russia ‘hadn’t really tried yet’.
Russians have been stuck trying to take Bakhmut since last August and still they can’t impose their will, with all their focus on one little stretch of dirt for months and months.
Have those expecting Russia to demonstrate competence it has thus far hidden from the battlefield tell us what gives them faith in the Russian military?
I know! Why is this guy complaining? He’ll make his millions!
Are they hiring?
How true.
ding ding ding!
Turkey and Germany also make them.
I am sure this is the guy that was filmed being positively giddy at the opportunities that the war offered.
“NATO countries collective defense budgets are about $1.2 TRILLION. $850 Billion of that is USA.
We are told that in 2021, Russia’s defense budget was $69 Billion
Granted, they aren’t running a global empire, with 280 bases around the world, and we are.
But Raytheon says we are out of anti-tank, missile and artillery shells, while Russians have no problem expending 5X the Ukrainians.
Something very weird with this picture.”
President Dwight D. Eisenhauer said it best, and can’t be repeated enough: “Beware the industrial military complex.”
Why has Raytheon not been performing better? Serious question
Going according to Biden, I mean Obamas long term plan.
I sold 1/2 my stock in Gaytheon at the recent $104 high. The low came because they hadn’t made volumes of this stuff in years (we stopped buying it in volumes over 15 years ago) and Hayes said it would take a year to get production volumes up to speed.
Lean makes it hard for capitalists to profit off warmongering, like they could when “inventory” was still a thing.
@ $100/share, Its probably too late to make any money from it.
I’m already looking beyond the war now. TREMX
Supply chain issues of course. ;)
The Russians keep their cards close to their chests as to the war. I suspect the Special Operation was fairly much a show of force to get Ukraine to immediately capitulate to their demands.
That obviously didn’t happen. What is also obvious is that Russia did not have at it’s hands an extremely powerful and threatening offensive military jumping at the bit to conquer Finland, Sweden, Poland, Ukraine, Germany, the Czech Republic, etc., ad nauseum. Can we agree on that?
So what’s with America through NATO making a steady push up to Russia’s door as if they did and lying to everyone saying that they were?
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