Comments by "" (@ericsaxon5736) on "Dissecting the US Military's Challenges (Against China)" video.
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6:32 This is such a dumb point, I can't believe anyone is even making it.
Stinger missiles, designed in 1967, a weapon no one is producing it in mass quantities because NO ONE in the United States military is even using it, are relics from 50 years ago. The cost of decommissioning and destroying them was more expensive than shipping them to Ukraine and letting the Ukrainians use them against Russian hardware.
That's right, shipping a Stinger missile to Ukraine probably cost $1,000 and scrapping it, and dismantling it safely in the US would have probably cost $3,000-$5,000 and you no longer had to pay someone to guard this junk.
The US is not running out of ammunition, as fast as Russia is running out of tanks, APCs and troops. So the worry about not having FULL munitions for the next 10 years, is an absurd issue, if it will take Russia 50-80 years to replace all of its losses.
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