The Pentagon has ordered another $309 million worth of replacement Javelins. MORRIS: Last week, Biden signed a new $40 billion aid package for Ukraine. ![]() PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN: And to make sure the United States and our allies can replenish our own stocks of weapons to replace what we've sent to Ukraine - as I said from the beginning, this fight is not going to be cheap. Production is picking up, but it's going to be expensive, as President Joe Biden conceded when he visited the plant earlier this month. MORRIS: Javelins are assembled in a plant in Troy, Ala., out of parts and materials sourced from around the country. We've been producing them at about 800 a year, more or less. has sent up to 7,000 Javelins to Ukraine, about a third of its stockpile.ĬANCIAN: The production problem for Javelins is that we've sent a lot of them, and we are producing them at a very high rate. ![]() has stopped shipping the celebrated missile.ĬANCIAN: What you've seen is that in recent aid packages, there aren't any Javelins, and I think that's because the stockpile is getting low. MORRIS: This video shows familiar images of Ukrainian soldiers firing Javelins, Russian tanks exploding and burned-out wrecks smoldering. UNIDENTIFIED SINGER: (Singing) Javelin, Javelin - (singing in non-English language). T-shirts, murals, even songs, venerating a missile. MARK CANCIAN: We've seen pictures of Saint Javelin. And Mark Cancian with the Center for Strategic and International Studies says the war in Ukraine has distinguished an American-made, shoulder-fired, precision-guided anti-tank missile - the Javelin. Frank Morris of our member station KCUR explains why.įRANK MORRIS, BYLINE: Every conflict has its iconic weapons - tanks in World War II, helicopters in the Vietnam War. But supplies are low, and restocking them will not be easy. One of the best weapons Ukraine has in its war with Russia is Javelin missiles.
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