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Originally Posted by opendoor
Yeah, they were planning on phasing them out and the US has already sent Ukraine about 25% of their Stinger missiles, so that supply is basically gone in the near term. Javelins are similar, as the US has already sent the equivalent of about 5-7 years of acquisitions to Ukraine and it'll likely take a year or so to really ramp up production to even begin to replace those. The characterization of the US being some limitless supply of high-tech weaponry that can be transferred to Ukraine really isn't accurate, at least based on current production levels. At the same time, Russia is also depleting its weapon stocks, so they'll experience similar difficulties.
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I was more commenting that the weapons they are sending that are decimating the Russians are 20 year old stuff the US doesn't even make anymore.
But you're right they aren't an unlimited source of weapons - although I suspect they'll be able to re-stock faster than the Russians.