Surge capacity exists for Javelin, but Army has yet to say how many it wants

By Ethan Sterenfeld / March 23, 2022 at 2:13 PM
There is enough surge production capacity available in the Javelin missile supply chain to build thousands more per year, to refill U.S. stockpiles that have supplied Ukraine, but the Army has made no public announcements yet concerning how many missiles it will buy or how much they will cost. “We have the capacity to meet increased demand for the foreseeable future,” a Lockheed Martin spokeswoman wrote last week in a statement to Inside Defense . A Lockheed-Raytheon joint venture builds...

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