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.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
Raytheon is going to be RICH!
Don’t worry, they’ll just move onto the next weapon systems to deplete
And still the Russians haven’t begun their full onslaught.
I guess we weren’t prepared for a land war against Russia after all.
Oliver Warbucks is so happy!
Opsec is dead
Biden is stupid. He’s depleted oil reserves as well.
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.
Wish I bought some stock in Raytheon
Just stop right there.
How many of these missiles are stockpiled somewhere?
Let me address the elephant in the room, WHERE DID THEY ALL GO since there appears to be no accountability anywhere?????
Much like the Covid pandemic made pharma Execs extremely rich, sending weapon systems to Ukraine will make weapon manufacturing CEOs extremely rich. Hey, the Demoncrats ... I mean Democrats are just fulfilling their pay back to those elites who donated to their party.
I think the defense contractors are lying about what we have. Otherwise Biden would give it all away if he knew.
missles, tanks, armored vehicles, field guns, and now the naval ship building capacity...
These libturds have destroyed the US military and exposed us to the two most powerful adversaries we have ever faced.
And, for what? So SloJo can use his Ukraine battle saber as ersatz Viagra?
They were expended upon the military hardware they were created for. Will need to replenish, obviously, but there is a bit of an upside to this situation.
There’s something to be said about comparative costs and differences in purchasing power between nations.
There’s also something to consider about just how much grift and wasteful excess occurs in the Department of Defense. As far as I’m aware, the Pentagon has failed its last five audits.
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