Media: Washington needs 6 years to renew its missile reserves after it emptied them in Ukraine

WOTRLD, March 08 (YPA) –  Washington has sent a third of its stock of Javelin anti-tank missiles  and Stinger systems to Ukraine, and it could take up to 6 years to replenish reserves of 155mm artillery shells, media reported.

According to the American Conservative Magazine, The United States has moved a third of its stockpile of Javelin anti-tank and Stinger anti-aircraft systems to Ukraine, and it could take up to six years to replenish reserves of 155mm artillery shells.

If all aid to Ukraine ends tomorrow, for example, it would take six years to produce enough 155mm shells to bring US stockpiles back to pre-war levels. With the planned production increase to 20 thousand shells per month.

Therefore, the United States wants to more than quadruple production from 20,000 to 90,000 per month by 2025 but even with new production volumes, it will take 11 months to bring 155mm missile inventories to pre-war levels.

Kiev also received a third of US stockpiles of 1.6 thousand pieces of Stinger’s portable anti-aircraft missile systems.

The production capacity of the Stinger missiles is worse than that of the Javelin missiles, according to the magazine.

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