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As Raytheon struggles to replenish Stinger missiles, lawmaker pushes Defense Production Act​

Tuesday, Apr 26 , 2022

WASHINGTON ― The U.S. may not be able to make more of the shoulder-fired Stinger anti-aircraft missiles it has been sending to Ukraine until at least 2023 due to parts and materials shortages, the head of manufacturer Raytheon Technologies said Tuesday.

The revelation, during Raytheon’s quarterly earnings call, underscores the challenge facing the Pentagon and defense industry as they seek to boost arms production in response to the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict. The bottleneck is fueling recommendations from Capitol Hill that President Joe Biden invoke the Defense Production Act to prioritize supplies of components for weapons like the Stinger.



Echoing a Center for Strategic and International Studies assessment, Blumenthal said the U.S. had likely sent Ukraine one-third of its Javelins and that it would take a year to ramp up Javelin production and 32 months to replenish Javelin supplies.


Greg Hayes, Raytheon’s chief executive, said the company is working to find some of the materials for the missile. Because some components are no longer commercially available, the company will have to redesign electronics in the missile’s seeker head.

“That’s going to take us a little bit of time,” Hayes said. “We’re going to ramp up production this year, but I expect this is going to be ‘23-’24 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.”
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As Raytheon struggles to replenish Stinger missiles, lawmaker pushes Defense Production Act

The U.S. may not be able to make more of the shoulder-fired Stinger anti-aircraft missiles it has been sending to Ukraine until at least 2023, the manufacturer, Raytheon Technologies said Tuesday.
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150 page thread....quite a lot of information, or not.

But what does history have to say? One must actually look at it to see the present malignant stupidity of fUSA.Gov.

1) Was the fUSA, from initial breakup of the USSR, ALWAYS in Ukraine's corner?

It would appear not - forgotten history, or more likely these days, suppressed history, tells a different story.

1991: When America Tried to Keep Ukraine in the USSR | Ryan McMaken

"The US government today likes to pretend that it is the perennial champion of political independence for countries that were once behind the Iron Curtain. What is often forgotten, however, is that in the days following the fall of the Berlin Wall, Washington opposed independence for Soviet republics like Ukraine and the Baltic states."

2) Thought I'd never post anything from "Antiwar.com" - well, that's before the fUSA descended into the spasms of birthing Der Vierte Reich.

The monumental amount of $$$ and arms being sent to Ukraine by our monetarily and morally bankrupt government is to be codified in law...by resurrecting the "Lend Lease" program.

House Passes Bill to Revive WWII-Era Lend-Lease Program for Ukraine - News From Antiwar.com

"The US would be to send weapons to Ukraine under the legislation for however long the current conflict lasts. According to the summary, it will remain in effect until “the conflict beginning with Russia’s annexation of the Crimea region of Ukraine in 2014 has ceased, and Russia has reduced its military force on Ukraine’s eastern border to the levels maintained prior to March 1, 2021.""

And, NO NYS Congress critters voted against it. Remember this shit when the 2022 mid-terms occur (if they do) - I don't want to hear any bullshit about - "You didn't vote, you handed victory to the DemonRats!!" No, I didn't - the back-stabbers of the Republican party did.

The fUSA has now, officially, adopted "war-mongering" as a foreign policy.

I'm betting the above post gets me a visit from the new Ausschuss für Desinformations-Governance...

Sieg Heil, bitches.
 
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John Kirby is a globalist COCKSUCKER. Pouring billions of dollars into a war that could have been avoided. Pitting Slavs against Slavs and playing a big humanitarian. Fuck him and his kind. COCKSUCKERS.
 
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Cheering On The Soap Opera War

"Waiting in the supermarket queue the other day, I overheard the checkout assistant discussing the ongoing drama with a customer: the civilian casualties, the poor refugees, the wickedness of Putin. For them, it was simply a question of Zelensky right, Putin wrong, as they watched this latest real-life soap opera replace the equally deceptive Covid saga on their TV screens, cheering the heroes and booing the villains selected for them by the directors of the show."
 
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GOPerfect said:
nypost.com

Heroic ‘Ghost of Kyiv’ fighter doesn’t actually exist, Ukraine admits

After several news outlets last week identified the legendary, mysterious, hero fighter pilot as a 29-year-old dad recently killed in battle with the Russians, military officials acknowledged Satur…
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Ukraine Now Admits ‘Ghost of Kyiv’ Was ‘Essential’ Propaganda to Boost Morale. - The National Pulse

The ‘Ghost of Kiev’ or ‘Ghost of Kyiv’ was one of the most oft-repeated stories in the early part of Russia’s war with Ukraine. Western media outlets, television anchors, politicians, and Ukraine flag-in-bio-bros unsparingly littered social media outlets with tales of a secret, super-pilot who...
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Ukraine Now Admits ‘Ghost of Kyiv’ Was ‘Essential’ Propaganda to Boost Morale.​


CHALK UP ANOTHER VICTORY FOR THE ‘CONSPIRACY THEORISTS’.
The ‘Ghost of Kiev’ or ‘Ghost of Kyiv’ was one of the most oft-repeated stories in the early part of Russia’s war with Ukraine. Western media outlets, television anchors, politicians, and Ukraine flag-in-bio-bros unsparingly littered social media outlets with tales of a secret, super-pilot who was knocking dozens of Russian jets out of the sky.



At the time, anti-war skeptics suspected the tales were pure propaganda or “disinformation”, only to be ruthlessly dismissed as “Putinistas” or similar in the early days of the conflict.
Now, as claims that the ‘Ghost of Kiev’ is dead, Ukraine’s own government as well as military social media accounts and historians are accepting that he never really existed.
 
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livingston said:
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Ukraine Now Admits ‘Ghost of Kyiv’ Was ‘Essential’ Propaganda to Boost Morale. - The National Pulse

The ‘Ghost of Kiev’ or ‘Ghost of Kyiv’ was one of the most oft-repeated stories in the early part of Russia’s war with Ukraine. Western media outlets, television anchors, politicians, and Ukraine flag-in-bio-bros unsparingly littered social media outlets with tales of a secret, super-pilot who...
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Ukraine Now Admits ‘Ghost of Kyiv’ Was ‘Essential’ Propaganda to Boost Morale.​


CHALK UP ANOTHER VICTORY FOR THE ‘CONSPIRACY THEORISTS’.
The ‘Ghost of Kiev’ or ‘Ghost of Kyiv’ was one of the most oft-repeated stories in the early part of Russia’s war with Ukraine. Western media outlets, television anchors, politicians, and Ukraine flag-in-bio-bros unsparingly littered social media outlets with tales of a secret, super-pilot who was knocking dozens of Russian jets out of the sky.



At the time, anti-war skeptics suspected the tales were pure propaganda or “disinformation”, only to be ruthlessly dismissed as “Putinistas” or similar in the early days of the conflict.
Now, as claims that the ‘Ghost of Kiev’ is dead, Ukraine’s own government as well as military social media accounts and historians are accepting that he never really existed.
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Yep! Nothing by Lies and Bullshit!
 
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US House Speaker Pelosi Meets Zelenskyy in Kyiv​


U.S. Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy during a visit to Ukraine's capital, Kyiv. Pelosi told Zelenskyy that the visit was intended to thank Ukraine for its fight for freedom and that the U.S. commitment is to be there for Ukraine until the fight is done.
 
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livingston said:

US House Speaker Pelosi Meets Zelenskyy in Kyiv​


U.S. Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy during a visit to Ukraine's capital, Kyiv. Pelosi told Zelenskyy that the visit was intended to thank Ukraine for its fight for freedom and that the U.S. commitment is to be there for Ukraine until the fight is done.
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Why?

Pelosi & Schiff to a war ravaged nation?

Makes me now wonder if Russia invaders even stepped foot in Western Ukraine.
 
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