{"id":1468487,"date":"2022-05-09T08:00:18","date_gmt":"2022-05-09T12:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1468487"},"modified":"2022-05-09T08:00:36","modified_gmt":"2022-05-09T12:00:36","slug":"army-and-marines-scramble-to-purchase-new-javelins-and-stingers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/army-and-marines-scramble-to-purchase-new-javelins-and-stingers\/","title":{"rendered":"Army and Marines Scramble to Purchase New Javelins and Stingers"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Farmy-and-marines-scramble-to-purchase-new-javelins-and-stingers%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1468487&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"attachment_221226\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-221226\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A U.S. Army paratrooper fires an FGM-148 Javelin shoulder-fired anti-tank missile during a combined arms live-fire exercise at Grafenwoehr Training Area, Germany, August 21, 2019. (Sgt. Henry Villarama)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>WASHINGTON: The Defense Department has transferred almost $1.5 billion to the Army and Marine Corps to replenish Stinger anti-aircraft weapons and Javelin anti-tank missiles that have been delivered to Ukraine, the Pentagon\u2019s top acquisition executive said today.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are actively negotiating right now \u2014 the Army is \u2014 for Stinger and related components, and that\u2019s ongoing,\u201d Bill LaPlante said during a briefing. \u201cExpect to get that awarded by the end of the May. For Javelins, the award is imminent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The department shifted $809 million to the Army for Javelin procurement in fiscal 2022 funds, as well as about $674 million for Stinger procurement for both the Army and Marine Corps, according to a May 1 reprogramming notification signed by Pentagon Comptroller Mike McCord.<\/p>\n<p>The money for both comes from the Ukraine Replacement Transfer Fund, part of the $13.6 billion in supplemental funding for Ukraine appropriated by Congress <a href=\"https:\/\/breakingdefense.com\/2022\/03\/congress-settles-on-782-5b-national-defense-budget-adds-13-6b-in-ukraine-aid\/\">in March<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span>As of late April, the Pentagon said it had sent Ukraine over 1,400 Stinger systems and over 5,500 Javelin systems.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Now that the funds have been transferred and Congress has been notified, Army contracting officials can begin digging in with Raytheon and Lockheed Martin to identify exactly how best to ramp up production of those weapons, Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks said at the Reagan Institute earlier today.<\/p>\n<p>The department is \u201ctrying to understand what is the smartest allocation of funds to get the best output,\u201d she said, and it\u2019s not clear how many Stinger or Javelin systems will be purchased with the $1.5 billion.<\/p>\n<p>For both weapons, increasing production is not as easy as flipping a switch.<\/p>\n<p>The Raytheon-made Stinger has been out of production for the US military for 18 years and is currently only being produced for a single international custom<span>er, which the company declined to identify. Be<\/span>cause the system\u2019s design is so old, some of its components are <span>obsolete <\/span>and nearly impossible to source. Last month, Raytheon CEO Greg Hayes said that the company would likely need to<a href=\"https:\/\/breakingdefense.com\/2022\/04\/facing-obsolete-parts-raytheon-struggling-to-replace-stingers-sent-to-ukraine\/\"> redesign some electronics<\/a> in Stinger\u2019s seeker and missile head.<\/p>\n<p>While the Javelin is currently in production by a Lockheed-Raytheon joint venture, the difficulty <span>there <\/span>lies in scaling up existing production facilities so that the company can produce \u201cabout one and a half times where they are now in monthly production,\u201d Hicks said.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, Hicks accompanied President Joe Biden to Lockheed\u2019s Javelin production facility in Troy, Ala.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were there to thank the women and men who work at that facility \u2014 for their tireless efforts in supplying the Department of Defense and our allies and partners,\u201d she said, adding that Javelins had been a \u201cgame changer\u201d in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Before Biden\u2019s visit, Lockheed CEO Jim Taiclet said he hoped to champion the need to increase Javelin production to replenish US and allied stockpiles, as well as respond to emerging request from new customers.<\/p>\n<p>Lockheed has already used internal funding to begin expanding its production facilities and buying equipment, as well as making advanced payments to suppliers of critical components.<\/p>\n<p>For example, \u201cthere\u2019s about 250 microprocessors in every Javelin,\u201d <span>Taiclet <\/span>said on April 29. \u201cWe have to help our suppliers getting ready to bulk up their capacity to and so we may pre-fund them to help them do that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A U.S. Army paratrooper fires an FGM-148 Javelin shoulder-fired anti-tank missile during a combined arms live-fire exercise at Grafenwoehr Training Area, Germany, August 21, 2019. 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