DOD Buying Javelins, Stingers As It Plans Their Replacements

Brian Everstine May 06, 2022
Two U.S. Army soldiers train using an FIM-92 Stinger Man-Portable Air Defense Missile System.
Credit: U.S. Army
The Pentagon is reprogramming almost $1.5 billion from newly authorized Ukraine assistance funds to replenish its Javelin anti-tank munition stocks and order new Stinger anti-aircraft missiles for the first time in two years as the department moves forward on their replacements. The Pentagon’s...
Brian Everstine

Brian Everstine is the Pentagon Editor for Aviation Week, based in Washington, D.C. Before joining Aviation Week in August 2021, he covered the Pentagon for Air Force Magazine. Brian began covering defense aviation in 2011 as a reporter for Military Times.

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