The Lockheed Martin and Raytheon “Javelin Joint Venture (JJV)” announced the contract on Aug. 28 to produce the man-portable, anti-armor weapons (ATGW), including 4,000 missiles for Ukraine.
  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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    18 days ago

    Ok, but…what if we sent them 4,000,000 javelins? And the idea is, they just fire them at absolutely EVERYTHING.

    I’m sure they have to conserve ammo right now, but imagine we got them 2 million rockets for the 400,000 javelins. And told them basically “Yeah man, go nuts.”

    • Ellia Plissken@lemm.eeEnglish
      3·
      18 days ago

      yeah but they got a shelf life of 10 years. we were likely paying to replace them already anyway

      never mind, this is a brand new production run. looks like they’re doing 4,000 new missiles for the existing CLUs. the missiles are about 250k a pop