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Old 13th Apr 2022, 18:52
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Originally Posted by RatherBeFlying
Will the United States Run Out of Javelins Before Russia Runs Out of Tanks?

Somewhat US centric, but does include contributions from other countries.

Stocks are running down and production may take several months to ramp up..
Supply numbers have focussed heavily on US and UK, but Scandinavian countries have supplied several thousand anti-tank missiles. So far Germany has supplied very few, as an initial planned delivery of old DDR Strela missiles was 70% scrap and there have been no numbers for the Panzerfaust3. France has supplied no war equipment at all: whether it could be pressured to do so if supplies really ran low is up for debate.

In such a situation, would it be military doctrine to move supplies of something like anti-tank missiles from front to front as the enemy redeployed, or once delivered to Kiev, would they stay there ? The great unknown , of course, is how many missiles are being used per kill. What we see is, naturally, the " he shoots...and he kills !!!" variant, but are there 10 misses we never see ? On the figures quoted in this article, and others, it seems that Ukraine has probably received close to 25 000 missiles, so one would hope that they still have plenty left.

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