SENDING MORE JAVELINS AND STINGERS TO UKRAINE COULD LEAVE THE US DEFENSELESS
Raytheon CEO Greg Hayes said that his company could not make Stingers fast enough. They blamed a familiar culprit - problems with the supply chain.
“We're currently producing Stingers for an international customer,” Hayes said during the call. “But we have a very limited stock of material for Stinger production.”
The company, he said, has been working with the Department of Defense “for the last couple of weeks” to fix the problem, he said.
“We're actively trying to resource some of the material but unfortunately, DOD hasn't bought a Stinger in about 18 years and some of the components are no longer commercially available. And so we're going to have to go out and redesign some of the electronics in the missile of the seeker head. That's going to take us a little bit of time.”
A solution, he said, won’t likely come for another year or two, Hayes said, “where we actually see orders come in for the larger replenishments both on Stinger as well as on Javelin, which has also been very successful in theater.”
Both the Stinger and the Javelin shoulder-fired anti-armor weapon (the latter made in a joint venture by Raytheon and Lockheed Martin) have been in high demand since Russia launched its all-out war on Ukraine.
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/ukraine-worried-it-cant-train-enough-troops-on-javelins
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/raytheon-is-unable-to-make-stinger-anti-aircraft-missiles-quickly-enough
with a .30-06 at 1000 yds (to avoid blowback)
i actually have a .243 myself, but figured the 06 was more recognizable to anons who don't rifle.
lots of people think you need a barrett to make distance shots…
>Or do you shoot up to overcome the drop?
ya adjust the scope/sights. try shooting a real rifle at a real range sometime.
guy hits bucket at 782 yds STANDING, FREE-HAND, using sharps w/ open sights. FOUR TIMES in a row.
just 'cause (You) can't do it, don't mean it can't be done.
ronnie raygun was another in a long line of sock-puppets. thank him for handing the FDA over to big pharma, and crushing the air-traffic controllers union, signalling the start of the greatest period of union busting in history.
>Reagan was better than any president that followed him, except Trump
true, but that's setting the bar as low as it can go.
i see you've both already gotten your neuralink mind control implant. how's that working out for ya?
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posting has just gotten very glitchy for me…. taking a break
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>Reagan was one of them.
he was real big on privatization (corporate rape of taxpayers). wasn't he the first one that privatized prisons?
read the leak… it hints that scotus will also overturn Obergefell v. Hodges.
>"Special needs" means nurses and doctors in the classroom.
you teach evolution in the classroom, but you obfuscate it at every turn. the UNFIT need to die before the gene pool becomes pond scum.
sorry, NOT SORRY.