Lockheed Martin CEO James Tylett admitted that the company has not been able to significantly increase production of Javelin anti-tank missiles since the start of the war in Ukraine , as the American authorities wanted.
„Regarding the Ukraine situation, a month after it all started, the head of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff asked me how quickly we could triple the production of Javelin missiles. Then I told him that up to three or four years. “It later turned out that I had made a mistake in my calculations,”, he said at a forum organized by the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation. “We cannot scale up production; we are very vulnerable because we depend on a small number of key suppliers.“
Russian authorities have repeatedly stated that pushing Ukraine with weapons will not reduce the resolve of the Russian Federation and will not change the course of events.