Hyperfinancial Stingers

The extent to which the American economy has been hollowed out, has been astonishing to see. I knew it was bad, but the truth has been uglier than a trip to Home Despot hardware store, where you will never see one cent wasted on an enjoyable customer experience.

Look at the current topic of Stinger missile re-production. How stupid does a Pentagon logistics expert need to be, to think we don’t need to pre-order any munitions for a land war against Russia?

As demand explodes, Raytheon forced to rehire retired Stinger engineers

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10 July 2023

It’s a big headline because they’re preferentially hiring white men. For possibly the last time. As much as Boomers ignore the existence of GenX, the Regime ignores us even more. I bet Tonisha and Prajeetiramabrahmin have been given the chance to make more, but not a pasty electronics tech in his prime.

As demand for Raytheon’s ancient Stinger missiles explodes, the company has been forced to employ retired employees to help build them, reports Defense One. The re-hired former engineers will help train younger staff and help restart production from blueprints that are well over 40 years old. The demand for the missiles has come after large quantities of the United States stockpiles have been donated to the Ukrainian military.

There’s much to unpack just from this one paragraph. Not least being that USA thought two Patriot batteries would hold off the entirety of the Russian air force, or that Fortune 500 companies have suddenly rediscovered the value of training employees on-the-job. Why are we going back to the Stinger at all? Is its replacement not working out? Hmm, what WAS its replacement?

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AUSA 2022: Boeing Shares Details on Next Generation Stinger Replacement

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By Aaron Lariosa, 10 October 2022

Boeing displayed its Next Generation Short-Ranged Interceptor (NGSRI) Concept at the Association of the United States Army’s annual meeting and exposition. This missile is the company’s submission for the Army’s program that will eventually replace the force’s existing FIM-92 Stinger missiles. In our interview, Boeing shared preliminary details on the NGSRI with Overt Defense.

NGSRI seems to be the new name for the overall Stinger replacement program, with a company representative remarking: “We’re talking about the Next Generation Short-Range Interceptor. It’s been called M-SHORAD Increment Three in the past as well, but it’s the Stinger replacement.”

The MIC replaced the Stinger with… NOTHING. And scrapped the production line. And ran out of TLAs.

(Three-Letter Acronyms.)

How was GAE this stupid, to believe that it would never need man-portable air defense ever again? By being an expeditionary naval power. GAE’s approach to war is “move up the aircraft carriers, establish air superiority, commence air strikes. To the extent that we have an army at all, it’s to secure the victories of our cruise missiles/drones/bombers. Also, to get kickbacks from Elon Musk for ordering Abrams-sized lithium batteries.”

And why not? Is Mexico gonna invade USA? They already are and it’s only keeping our labor costs down!

Having a Plan “B” would cost money.

“The Army has made this a priority in certain aspects to replace that diminishing product and also to make sure that we’re going after a specific threat. That specific threat (is) group two, three UAS, rotary wing and fixed wing.“

Either air drones produce thermal signatures same as manned craft, and the Stinger should work fine, or this will require a total redesign.

“What they’re looking for specifically, in comparison to the legacy Stinger, is to have more range, more lethality, more maneuverability, and better speed.”

It wasn’t said, but the replacement will also need to be lighter, easier to operate, effective against ground targets and ICBMs, make apple pie on demand, and be so easy to mass-produce that we’ll never need to pay White Man to make more, ever again.

Actually, that last part WAS said:

The Boeing representative further stated that they were working with the industry on the NGSRI’s open system architecture to allow future technology integration and avoid “vendor lock” situations in the years to come.

Vendor lock? More like Honkey Lock, when the headlines cry about Raytheon hiring legacy people.

When asked when production may start, the representative responded that the first missiles would be in low-rate production in 2026-27. NGRSI’s open system architecture was highlighted as well in the response.

That would be an impossibly fast development cycle even without Pentagon bureaucracy. The only way that could happen, is that what they’re actually doing, is re-releasing the Stinger in a format better suited to industrial production.

The proof is that this next-generation Stinger missile program began when Russia survived the economic sanctions, instead of twenty years ago when the Stinger left production. “They’ll go broke and starve if they cannot sell their energy and food! I call dibs on Prigorzhin’s yacht!… well, that didn’t work. How long will it take our illegal immigrants to build a munitions factory?”

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“Stinger’s been out of production for 20 years, and all of a sudden, in the first 48 hours [of the war], it’s the star of the show, and everybody wants more,” Wes Kremer, the president of RTX’s Raytheon division, said during an interview last week at the Paris Air Show.

Scrooge-berg reluctantly unfisted a dollar for a backup plan to his usury! He might want to learn Russian as he waits to take delivery.

Recently, Ukraine has employed nearly 2,000 heat-seeking missiles provided by the United States to shoot down Russian aircraft successfully. These missiles were sourced from US military reserves. Additionally, the Biden administration has announced plans to send Ukraine even more Stingers in the near future.

In May 2022, the US Army ordered 1,700 Stingers, but delivery is not expected until 2026, according to the Pentagon. As stated by Kremer, the production line for Stingers will take approximately 30 months to set up and for the training of employees to be completed.

Twelve months in, they’ve begun hiring people who know what they’re doing. To train their replacements who likely have ethnic grudges against their very existence. Producing weapons for a war that is already over and absolutely none of USA’s business anyway.

Parasites cannot create. Not even to save themselves. It’s not even that they ate the seed corn, it’s that they still expected the crops to grow. GAE spent eight years, since Maidan, preparing for this specific war, but they didn’t fill the warehouses because they couldn’t stop themselves from stealing.

Unless the purpose of 404 is to empty the stockpiles of NATO in preparation for conquest & unification. But looking at the bloodlust and imbecility of the Kagans, I doubt it.