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Supply chain shortage hits manufacturers of Stingers and Javelins:
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Supply chain shortage hits manufacturers of Stingers and Javelins
More than supply chain shortages. According to the article, Raytheon hasn’t made any Stingers for almost 20 years. If we want more they will have to be redesigned.
DB2
Raytheon hasn’t made any Stingers for almost 20 years. If we want more they will have to be redesigned.
In the works:https://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htmurph/articles/20220502…
The U.S. Army wants a new manpads (Man Portable Air Defense Missile System) to replace the current Stinger. The official request lists several new features needed as well as insisting the weight, portability and usability of the Stinger be retained. In other words, the army is asking for Redeye 3, just as Stinger was originally referred to as Redeye 2 but it was called Stinger for public relations purposes. The U.S. Army wants the first Redye 3s/Stinger replacement ready for combat use by 2028. That goal may be disrupted by the need to rapidly build a lot more of the current Stinger.
Now the U.S. needs over two thousand Stingers to rebuild American war reserve stocks as well as providing more to Ukraine, which needs them now.
The U.S. Army wants the first Redye 3s/Stinger replacement ready for combat use by 2028.
Good luck with that. Raytheon persuaded the Army to wait for it’s knockoff of the Israeli Trophy system, rather than buy the proven Israeli system. Fifteen years later, we are still waiting for Raytheon to offer a working product for deployment.
Steve
It is not like the currently used design of the Stinger no longer exists. It does not have to be redesigned. Tooling up has to happen and in all likelihood has been happening.
Press releases are sloppy. That can be purposeful to get public opinion to support other design projects.
More than supply chain shortages. According to the article, Raytheon hasn’t made any Stingers for almost 20 years. If we want more they will have to be redesigned.
The article said the Pentagon hasn’t purchased any in nearly 20 years. They are still being manufactured for foreign customers.
According to the strategypage link not many new stingers are being because supply stocks are continually being upgraded with improvements
As far as the Russia/Ukraine war, read an article the other day that supplying Ukraine with modern Howitzers does more to change the outcome than a bunch of javelins & stingers.
JLC