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  • Ukraine Tells West To 'Give Us the Damn Patriots' 

    03/27/2024 5:52:44 PM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 24 replies
    Newsweek ^ | Mar 26, 2024 | Ellie Cook
    Ukraine has doubled down on demands for U.S.-made Patriot air defense systems, pressing for vital, sophisticated assets to shield its cities at a moment of deepening concern over the future of military aid destined for Ukraine. "Give us the damn Patriots," Kyiv's foreign minister, Dmytro Kuleba, told Politico in an interview published on Monday. Ukraine is thought to have a handful of Patriot batteries, considered the gold-standard of air defenses. The exact number and locations are not known, but Ukraine is believed to have batteries stationed around major cities, like Kyiv, as well as close to the front lines. According...
  • CCP’s Military Growth 'Largely Funded' By US: Ret. Navy Capt.

    03/25/2024 9:49:04 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 15 replies
    Epoch Times ^ | 03/25/2024 | Dorothy Li and Jan Jekielek
    The Chinese Communist Party has aggressively built up its military, expanding its arsenal of both conventional and nuclear capabilities. The growth was largely funded by its rival, the United States.That is one of the arguments made by James Fanell, a retired U.S. Navy captain, and Bradley Thayer, a senior fellow at the Center for Security Policy, a Washington-based think tank, during a recent interview with EpochTV’s “American Though Leaders“ program.“The Chinese Navy now is over 150 naval combatants greater than the U.S. Navy. They are now the largest navy in terms of numbers of hulls and tonnage,” said Mr. Fanell,...
  • Pentagon to give Ukraine $300 million in weapons even as it lacks funds to replenish US stockpile

    03/12/2024 12:18:03 PM PDT · by Red Badger · 13 replies
    Yahoo! - AP ^ | Tue, March 12, 2024 at 12:52 PM CDT· | TARA COPP and LOLITA C. BALDOR
    WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon will rush about $300 million in weapons to Ukraine after finding some cost savings in its contracts, even though the military remains deeply overdrawn and needs at least $10 billion to replenish all the weapons it has pulled from its stocks to help Kyiv in its desperate fight against Russia, the White House announced Tuesday. It's the Pentagon's first announced security package for Ukraine since December, when it acknowledged it was out of replenishment funds. It wasn't until recent days that officials publicly acknowledged they weren't just out of replenishment funds, but $10 billion overdrawn....
  • Raytheon Lowers Flags To Half-Staff After Nikki Haley Drops Out

    03/06/2024 8:33:56 AM PST · by servo1969 · 16 replies
    BabylonBee.com ^ | 3-6-2024 | Bee Staff
    WALTHAM, MA — A somber mood fell over one of the nation's foremost defense contractors this morning, as Raytheon lowered its flags to half-staff after Nikki Haley announced she was dropping out of the 2024 presidential race. The aerospace technology corporation, which had been holding out hope that the world would enter a new era of highly profitable war, destruction, and death with the onset of World War III, was devastated by this morning's news that Haley had suspended her campaign. "This is a major blow," said a Raytheon spokesperson. "We are deeply saddened by the news of Nikki Haley...
  • *POPCORN* Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. says quiet part about WHO is actually running the country out LOUD

    02/19/2024 3:40:11 PM PST · by NetAddicted · 47 replies
    Twitchy.com ^ | 2/19/2024 | Sam J.
    We're PRETTY sure RFK Jr. didn't mean to give the Biden administration up since it sounds like he is trying to defend Biden and give him the benefit of the doubt even though he has been denied Secret Service protection. By the Biden administration. So maybe he did mean to? After all, it does sound like he is calling out the shadow president ... From the rest of his post: I suspect that the White House decision to deny me Secret Service protection — and many other more important decisions — are being made, not by the President himself, but...
  • Gaetz: Markwayne Mullin is trying to encourage Republicans to sign a DISCHARGE PETITION with Democrats to force the Senate’s “Ukraine First” bill forward!

    02/13/2024 9:50:29 PM PST · by RandFan · 49 replies
    Twitter/X ^ | Feb 13 | Rep. Matt Gaetz
    @RepMattGaetz @SenMullin is trying to encourage Republicans to sign a DISCHARGE PETITION with Democrats to force the Senate’s “Ukraine First” bill forward! He didn’t have the guts to vote for it in the Senate but wants the House to pass it. I will stand with @SpeakerJohnson to STOP this terrible unpaid-for $95 billion aid bill.
  • RAYTHEON IS BUILDING TWO ULTRA-HIGH POWER DIRECTED ENERGY WEAPONS FOR THE U.S. NAVY AND AIR FORCE

    01/22/2024 7:02:23 PM PST · by Red Badger · 78 replies
    The Debrief ^ | JANUARY 22, 2024 | CHRISTOPHER PLAIN·
    Defense contractor Raytheon has been tasked with designing, building, and testing a pair of directed energy weapons for the U.S. Navy and U.S. Air Force. Unlike cutting-edge laser systems that use the power of light to down airborne threats, the new weapons will use ultra-powerful microwave emitters to fry the electronics of attacking drones, missiles, and other electronically guided ordinance. According to RTX Corporation, which owns Raytheon, the two prototypes are expected to be delivered in 2024 and 2026, respectively. DIRECTED ENERGY WEAPONS INCREASINGLY VALUABLE IN ASYMMETRICAL WARFARE Traditional munitions like bullets use kinetic force to damage or destroy attacking...
  • RFK Jr.: Who Really Profits From The Ukraine War?

    01/10/2024 12:10:52 AM PST · by Nextrush · 43 replies
    You Tube ^ | 1/6/2024 | Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
    (Robert F. Kennedy Jr.) "The Russians tried repeatedly to settle...major thing they wanted was for us to keep NATO out of Ukraine. The Big Military Contractors want to add new countries to NATO...Why? Because that country has to conform its military purchases... Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, General Dynamics, Boeing and Lockheed get a trapped market... We committed 113 billion dollars...we then committed another 24 billion since then... Biden's asking for another 60 billion. But the big, big expenses are going to come after the war when we have to rebuild.... Mitch McConnell was asked "Can we really afford to spend 113...
  • Report: Defense Secretary Warned Congress U.S. Troops Could Be Deployed If Ukraine Aid Is Not Sent

    12/05/2023 7:40:58 PM PST · by chief lee runamok · 155 replies
    breitbart ^ | Kristina Wong
    Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin warned Congress on Tuesday during a private briefing that if they do not pass more aid to Ukraine, it would “very likely” lead to U.S. troops fighting a war in Europe.
  • Yellen Says U.S. Can Afford Two Wars Because She Gets A 20% 'Friends & Family' Discount With Raytheon

    10/18/2023 7:17:54 AM PDT · by DFG · 18 replies
    Babylon Bee ^ | 10/17/2023 | Babylon Bee
    WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen calmed growing concerns throughout the nation's capital this week by explaining the United States can easily afford to pay for two separate foreign wars because of the 20% "Friends & Family" discount she receives from Raytheon. "I've got you covered!" Yellen said with a smile after multiple U.S. officials expressed doubt the country could stay afloat financially while simultaneously funding wars in Israel and Ukraine. "With the killer discount I get from Raytheon, we'll be bombing people into oblivion on two continents, all without breaking the bank!" Yellen then produced her limited...
  • Half of POLITICO Letter ‘Foreign Policy Experts’ Calling for More Arms to Ukraine Tied to Arms Industry: Report

    07/13/2023 9:18:18 PM PDT · by cabojoe · 13 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 13 Jul 2023 | Kurt Zindulka
    An open letter signed by “46 foreign policy experts” calling for more arms shipments to Ukraine published in POLITICO failed to mention ties of nearly half of the signatories to the defence industry, allegedly glossing over conflicts of interest, the Washington-based Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft claimed.
  • Raytheon Calls in Retirees to Help Restart Stinger Missile Production

    07/09/2023 8:38:15 PM PDT · by Duke C. · 58 replies
    Defense One ^ | 6/28/23 | Marcus Weisgerber
    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...
  • Ukraine Hails U.S. Patriot's 'Record' Five Russian Aircraft Hits in One Day

    07/04/2023 12:53:22 PM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 8 replies
    Newsweek ^ | 07/04/2023 | Ellie Cook
    Ukraine's air force has appeared to confirm that a U.S-made Patriot missile system was behind the downing of five Russian aircraft in one day in May 2023. A video posted on Monday shows "kill" markings on the side of a Patriot air defense system that indicate it claimed three helicopters and two jets on May 13. If accurate, this would be a record for a Patriot system in a single day.
  • Raytheon CEO wishes he could help out, "decouple" from China but it's just too hard so...no

    06/20/2023 8:46:56 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 21 replies
    Hotair ^ | 06/20/2023 | Beege Welborn
    It turns out we are so wedded to the Chinese, that our own defense sector, while they may be able to “de-risk” – the “it” word of the moment – absolutely find it well-nigh impossible to “de-couple,” in the Gwyneth Paltrow sense.So we are being told as of yesterday. It figures – the Raytheon CEO with the word would be in Paris not Poughkeepsie – but he felt duty bound to disabuse us of those quaint notions we had about bringing American interests, especially security-wise, home.Handsomely, he left the door open for other defense contractors to walk through who agree...
  • Raytheon CEO Outlines Severe Depletion of Javelin and Stinger Stockpiles (13 Years production burned through in Ukraine)

    02/22/2023 2:04:39 PM PST · by hcmama · 101 replies
    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.”
  • Raytheon Reveals US Plan To Remove Anti-Air Systems From Gulf For Ukraine: Also lands $1.2 billion contract for Ukraine rockets...

    12/02/2022 8:20:31 PM PST · by SeekAndFind · 32 replies
    The Cradle ^ | 12/02/2022
    The CEO of US weapons giant Raytheon Technologies, Gregory Hayes, revealed on Thursday that Washington is working with partner nations in West Asia to transfer a handful of their air defense systems to Ukraine."The [Pentagon] is going to attempt to do some trading for us where we’ll take some from the [West Asian] countries that are our friends and some from our NATO allies, and try and get those into Ukraine early next year," Hayes said, before adding that the weapons will be "[backfilled] with new production over the next two years."Image source: Raytheon Technologies CorporationHayes did not mention specific...
  • Pentagon chief warns Turkey against new Syria military operation

    11/30/2022 7:16:09 PM PST · by Nextrush · 18 replies
    The New Arab ^ | 11/30/2022 | Reuters
    US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Wednesday 'expressed concern over escalating action in northern Syria and Turkey, including recent airstrikes, some of which directly threatened the safety of US personnel', the Pentagon said. US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Wednesday told his Turkish counterpart of his "strong opposition" to a new Turkish military operation in Syria and voiced concern over the escalating situation in the country, the Pentagon said...
  • Biden administration notifies Congress it has approved $323 million arms sale to Finland

    11/28/2022 2:13:28 PM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 14 replies
    The Hill ^ | 11/28/2022 | ELLEN MITCHELL
    The Biden administration on Monday notified Congress it has approved a possible $323 million arms sale to Finland as the country seeks to join NATO. The administration approved the potential sale of 40 tactical missiles and 48 Joint Standoff Weapons, made by Raytheon, in addition to accompanying equipment, training and support, the State Department said in a release. Finland, which shares a border with Russia, is in the process of joining NATO along with Sweden. Both countries sought to enter the alliance earlier this year. This State Department said the proposed sale “will support the foreign policy and national security...
  • Congress Passes Funding Stopgap Bill To Avoid Ukrainian Government Shutdown

    09/30/2022 10:06:31 AM PDT · by DFG · 11 replies
    Babylon Bee ^ | 09/29/2022 | Babylon Bee
    WASHINGTON, D.C. — In the nick of time, Congress has passed a bipartisan $12 billion funding bill, narrowly avoiding a Ukrainian government shutdown. "As elected representatives chosen by the people, it is our solemn duty, as outlined in the Constitution, to fully fund the Ukrainian government at all times," said Senator Chuck Schumer. "We humbly accept this sacred responsibility to send billions to Ukraine, who will send it to Raytheon, who will send it to super PACs, who will help us get elected. It's the right thing to do." President Zelensky took a few moments in between magazine glamour shoots...
  • Biden asks Congress to approve $1 billion arms deal with Taiwan

    09/02/2022 5:53:51 PM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 25 replies
    The hill ^ | 09/02/2022 | Jared Gans
    Share Tweet ... More The Biden administration is requesting approval from Congress for more than $1 billion in arms sales to Taiwan amid increased tensions with China over the island’s status. The State Department announced on Friday that it approved three separate proposed military sales for Taiwan, and Congress has been notified of them. If approved by Congress, the three sales will send contractor logistics support for Taiwan’s Surveillance Radar Program, up to 60 AGM-84L-1 Harpoon Block II missiles and related equipment and up to 100 AIM-9X Block II Sidewinder Tactical Missiles and equipment.