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> Not a chance. Not because he's innocent. But, because he will get
> complete cover from congress and the press.
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trump has vowed to wage war on biden from his prison cell, between blowjobs
for bubba and being brutally buttfucked and beaten to a pulp.

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[Biden weakens American military]

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Shoulder-fired Stinger missiles are in
hot demand in Ukraine where they have successfully stopped
Russian assaults from the air, but U.S. supplies have shrunk and
producing more of the anti-aircraft weapons faces significant
hurdles.

Challenges include complications related to ramping up
production, reluctance by the United States to redirect valuable
manufacturing capacity to decades-old technology, and fears
among defense companies that they would be stuck with unwanted
arms when the Ukraine war winds down, according to interviews
with U.S. officials and defense firms.

While U.S. troops themselves have limited use for the current
supply of Stingers -- a lightweight, self-contained weapon that
can be deployed quickly to defend against helicopters,
airplanes, drones and even cruise missiles -- the U.S. needs to
maintain its supply on hand while it develops the next
generation of a "man-portable air defense system."

"Right before Ukraine hit, we were going to divest ourselves of
Stingers," a congressional source said. Still, Pentagon
officials are concerned about a "dwindling" surplus, according
to a Pentagon official and the congressional source.

Ukrainian troops have shot down at least six targets during the
conflict using Lithuanian-provided Stingers, according to an
April 6 Facebook post by Arvydas Anusauskas, Lithuania's defense
minister, including helicopters, planes, drones and a cruise
missile. Reuters could not verify the claim.

Since February, the U.S. has shipped 1,400 Stingers to Ukraine,
according to an administration official. But sourcing more will
be difficult.

The Stinger production line was closed in December 2020, said
Pentagon spokesperson Jessica Maxwell. Since then, Raytheon
Technologies won a contract in July 2021 to manufacture more
Stingers, but mainly for international governments, according to
the U.S. Army. The sole Stinger facility, in Arizona, only
produces at a low rate.

The Pentagon has not ordered new Stingers for about 18 years,
but has ordered parts or made other efforts to increase its
supply. For example, the Army is in the middle of a "service
life extension plan" for some of its Stingers that were to
become obsolete in 2023 and is extending what the military calls
their "useful life" until 2030.

The Pentagon, which has thrown together weekly meetings to
discuss surging weapons demand from Eastern Europe, met with a
group of eight defense-contractor chief executives in mid-April
to discuss the supply of weapons to Ukraine, including the
Stinger.

Two sources familiar with the meeting said Raytheon CEO Greg
Hayes noted that it can require six to 12 months to restart a
munitions production line.

Hayes told analysts on a post-earnings conference call on
Tuesday that "we have a very limited stock of material for
Stinger production."

"We've been working with the Department of Defense for the last
couple of weeks," Hayes said. "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."

Hayes said he could ramp up production in 2022, but larger
replenishments will be in 2023 or 2024.

At the meeting of CEOs earlier this month, industry executives
voiced reservations about increasing weapons production. One
chief executive said that when the Ukraine war winds down, they
do not want to be stuck with warehouses full of unsellable
inventory without a guaranteed buyer, three people familiar with
the discussion said.

Congress also wants more Stingers, or at least something that
can do the same job.

The chairman of the House of Representatives Armed Services
Committee, Representative Adam Smith, wrote Secretary of Defense
Lloyd Austin last week and pointed out an "apparent absence of a
Department of Defense plan to meet short-range air defense
replenishment requirements for not only our U.S. stocks of
Stinger systems, but those of other contributing allies and
partners."

A Pentagon official who oversees weapons acquisitions for the
Army, Doug Bush, told Congress on March 31 the Defense
Department was putting together a plan to increase Stinger
production and planned to inform Congress imminently.

But as of late last week, a second congressional source who
spoke on condition of anonymity said there has been no
information about the plan.

Senator Richard Blumenthal, a member of the Senate's Committee
on Armed Services, asked Austin earlier in April at a Senate
budget hearing about using the Defense Production Act (DPA) to
restore depleted supplies of Stingers and Javelin anti-tank
missiles.

But using that law, which forces industry to put resources into
an immediate effort to make a product needed for national
security purposes, is premature, Pentagon spokesperson Maxwell
said.

In the longer term, the Army is looking for a replacement for
the Stinger that will go into production in 2027.

(Reporting by Mike Stone and Jonathan Landay in Washington;
additional reporting by Andrius Sytas in Vilnius; Editing by
Chris Sanders, Leslie Adler and Jonathan Oatis)

https://news.yahoo.com/shrinking-u-stinger-missile-supply-
102434214.html