{"id":1469689,"date":"2022-05-10T08:00:52","date_gmt":"2022-05-10T12:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1469689"},"modified":"2022-05-10T08:00:56","modified_gmt":"2022-05-10T12:00:56","slug":"lockheed-martin-set-to-ramp-up-javelin-missile-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lockheed-martin-set-to-ramp-up-javelin-missile-production\/","title":{"rendered":"Lockheed Martin Set to Ramp Up Javelin Missile Production"},"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\">18<\/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%2Flockheed-martin-set-to-ramp-up-javelin-missile-production%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=1469689&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><\/div>\n<p>Lockheed Martin CEO Jim Taiclet said on Sunday that his company would nearly double production of their Javelin missiles as the U.S. sends hundreds of the weapons to aid Ukraine\u2019s resistance against Russia\u2019s invasion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u200b\u200bRight now, our capacity is 2,100 Javelin missiles per year. We\u2019re endeavoring to take that up to 4,000 per year, and that will take a number of months, maybe even a couple of years to get there because we have to get our supply chain to also crank up,\u201d Taiclet said on CBS\u2019s \u201cFace the Nation.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re starting now to ramp it up because we have an active production line right now that the president saw,\u201d he added, referencing President Biden\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/defense\/3476193-us-defense-industry-strained-by-ukraine-weapons-deliveries\/\" data-type=\"url\" data-id=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/defense\/3476193-us-defense-industry-strained-by-ukraine-weapons-deliveries\/\">recent trip to a Lockheed Martin facility<\/a> in Troy, Ala.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo we can start turning up the heat now and ramping the production immediately because of those circumstances,\u201d he also said.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"thehill-promo-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/international\/3482732-zelensky-ukraine-has-taken-important-step-on-path-to-the-european-union\/\" class=\"thehill-promo-link__link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n\t\tZelensky: Ukraine has taken \u2018important\u2019 step on \u2018path to the European Union\u2019\t<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/3482545-pregnant-women-increasingly-exposed-to-chemicals-that-could-harm-development-study\/\" class=\"thehill-promo-link__link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n\t\tPregnant women increasingly exposed to chemicals that could harm development: study\t<\/a><br \/>\n\t<\/aside>\n<p>Taiclet said the war in Ukraine has \u201chighlighted a couple of really important things for us,\u201d including the \u201cneed to have superior systems in large enough numbers\u201d to meet demand and \u201ccontrol of the airspace.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. government has been <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/defense\/3476193-us-defense-industry-strained-by-ukraine-weapons-deliveries\/\" data-type=\"url\" data-id=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/defense\/3476193-us-defense-industry-strained-by-ukraine-weapons-deliveries\/\">looking to defense contractors<\/a> to backfill the military\u2019s supply of weapons so the U.S. can continue to ensure Ukraine can defend itself against Moscow\u2019s forces.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/defense\/3479945-pentagon-moves-1-45-billion-to-restock-javelin-stinger-missiles-sent-to-ukraine\/\" data-type=\"url\" data-id=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/defense\/3479945-pentagon-moves-1-45-billion-to-restock-javelin-stinger-missiles-sent-to-ukraine\/\">the Pentagon moved $1.45 billion<\/a> to the Army and Marine Corps to restock Javelin anti-tank and Stinger anti-aircraft missiles that the U.S. sent to Ukraine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lockheed Martin CEO Jim Taiclet said on Sunday that his company would nearly double production of their Javelin missiles as the U.S. sends hundreds of the weapons to aid Ukraine\u2019s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":489,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1469689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/489"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1469689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1469689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1469689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1469689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}