The aim is to boost output to 4,000 per year from 2,100 per year currently, Taiclet said in an interview with CBS News. The increase will take as long as a couple of years, he said.

https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/lockheed-martin-ceo-says-firm-is-looking-nearly-double-javelin-missile-2022-05-08/

Cha ching!

Political donations just increased!!

Let's not forget that before Putin's adventure in Ukraine that Raytheon was doing its best to divest the program and leave LM holding the bag.  Will be interesting to see if Raytheon can ramp up guidance section deliveries to meet the demand.  The Stinger line is totally fucked so I don't imagine Javelin is doing any better.

My stock guy sent me a notice that I’m (he) is buying Raytheon and LM way back in March. LM is doing good, R is meh. I suspect they will have a time getting chips. I wanted L3, but they don’t seem to be doing much stockwise..

Raytheon makes the missiles and kill vehicles for almost everything now. No matter who wins most of the prime contracts, so does Raytheon. It's a nice place to be.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raytheon_Missiles_%26_Defense

"U.S. President Joe Biden last week visited a Lockheed facility in Alabama that manufactures the weapons...."

Pure coincidence, I can assure you.

Raytheon Missile and Defense lost 30% of its engineers in the first 3 months of the year and is forecasting a loss of 4000 more by the end of the year.  These are mid to late career types that aren't easily replaced.  The focus is 110% on their ESG score now.  It is so bad in Tucson that Ma Raytheon in Massachusetts is offering incentive programs for the east coasters to move out here to fill in the gaps.  This isn't financial advice, just passing along what I know.

So it sounds like they have gone basically full woke now, and are herding the white males out the door?

As if there weren't already too many Democrats in AZ.

I'd rather this than funding welfare queens.

Pretty much.  This started not long after the buyout by UTC.  I know around the time I left they weren't even making counter offers or if they did, they were laughable.  Who knows how big that number is in total.  It has just reached the point now that they are tracking it and flowing it out to managers.

Russia just sent out mobilization notices. They’re going to throw anything that can turn a tread at Ukraine and if GD’s favorite dictator goes fully off his rocker there is a solid enough chance this war expands and it will be necessary to have both a European War and Code Pink forum.

I would expect to see much, MUCH more ordnance production in the near future.

If you believe the Austrian army intel then there’s a better chance of said Russian tanker having one of those dropped javelins riding in his tank with him ready to fire at the Ukrainians.

Basically it’s alleged that what gear the Ukrainians get is being used or captured almost immediately and the West isn’t being told the truth about what’s happening in Ukraine.

Time will tell.

Just more to give away.

Taiwan and South Korea have doubled their orders of Javelins.

Perhaps we should steal some Russian Kornets and Iglas and give them to the Ukes.

Also should Ukraine go on an en masses offensive the Russians will rain down Kornets and Iglas on them.  And the Russians also have Baktyir drones from Turkey and a license to manufacture them, and their own Switchblade drones.

FIFY

I wouldn't mind having a few. Do they do layaway?

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I know 3 engineers that have left to go to Raytheon in the past couple months.  They must be paying to fill the ranks again.

Ironic

They are. They’re desperate.

Do you have a link to that intel?

So is there any possibility that the Ukraine's are selling the incoming weapons to Israel , Iran or whom ever the highest bidder is ? Something is more than obvious happening outside of said weapons being used by the Ukraine military and their partners.

That vacancy on the board isn’t gonna fill itself!

Lol, they’re givin’ them to “Nazis”…

You'll get both. The big guy pays back his patrons

Based on the the town hall questions that got posted publicly awhile back, seems things are miserable at RMD.  There was a thread here awhile back with the link.

US Army
06 May 2022
Raytheon/Lockheed Martin Javelin JV, Tucson, Arizona, was awarded a $237,892,096 modification (P00064) to contract W31P4Q-19-C-0076 for the Javelin Missile System.
Work will be performed in Tucson, Arizona, with an estimated completion date of Nov. 30, 2025.
Fiscal 2022 missile procurement, Army funds in the amount of $237,892,096 were obligated at the time of the award.
U.S. Army Contracting Command, Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, is the contracting activity.

US Army
28 Feb 2022
Raytheon/Lockheed Martin Javelin JV, Tucson, Arizona, was awarded a $19,541,045 modification (P00055) to contract W31P4Q-19-C-0059 for life cycle contractor support services for the Javelin Weapon System.
Work will be performed in Tucson, Arizona, with an estimated completion date of Feb. 28, 2023.
Fiscal 2022 operation and maintenance, Army; overseas contingency operations; United States Marine Corps; Army National Guard; and Foreign Military Sales (Australia, Estonia, Georgia, Indonesia, Ireland, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, New Zealand, Oman, Poland, Taiwan, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates) funds in the amount of $19,541,045 were obligated at the time of the award.
U.S. Army Contracting Command, Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, is the contracting activity.

US Army
15 July 2021
Raytheon/Lockheed Martin Javelin JV, Tucson, Arizona, was awarded an $8,617,243 modification (P00099) to contract W31P4Q-19-C-0038 to support Javelin engineering services.
Work will be performed in Tucson, Arizona, with an estimated completion date of Feb. 15, 2023.
Fiscal 2021 procurement of ammunition, Army; and Foreign Military Sales (United Kingdom) funds in the amount of $8,617,243 were obligated at the time of the award.
U.S. Army Contracting Command, Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, is the contracting activity.

US Army
27 April 2021
Raytheon/Lockheed Martin Javelin JV, Tucson, Arizona, was awarded a $175,936,936 modification (P00037) to contract W31P4Q-19-C-0076 for the Javelin Weapon System.
Work will be performed in Tucson, Arizona, with an estimated completion date of Nov. 30, 2023.
Fiscal 2010 Foreign Military Sales (Lithuania and Taiwan) funds; and 2021 missile procurement, Army funds in the amount of $175,936,936 were obligated at the time of the award.
U.S. Army Contracting Command, Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, is the contracting activity.

Link?

Perhaps there’s a next generation Javelin we could find instead? Computer tech has come a ways the past few years.

iIRC Russia still has 10-11k tanks left.

They better get to work.

Wheeeeew boy, them kick backs gonna be good this year!

Thanks to the sucker taxpayer

10% for the bigguy!

If Iran and or China and or North Korea kick in within the next couple years

It's OK....The Ukrainians are gonna pay for all those new Javelins...right? Right?

Iron triangle wins again!

If by ukranians you mean middle class working americans (the poor haven't got it to take, the wealthy make theirs hard to take and don't have enough collective wealth to pay it anyhow).

Those notices were proven to be false.  Don't spread propaganda please.

haha, missile factory go brrrrrt