Surge capacity exists for Javelin, but Army has yet to say how many it wants

There is enough surge production capacity available in the Javelin missile supply chain to build thousands more per year, to refill U.S. stockpiles that have supplied Ukraine, but the Army has made no public announcements yet concerning how many missiles it will buy or how much they will cost.

“We have the capacity to meet increased demand for the foreseeable future,” a Lockheed Martin spokeswoman wrote last week in a statement to Inside Defense.

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This could be a chance for the Army and the other services to assess the number of Javelins they keep in stockpiles, Stacie Pettyjohn, a senior fellow at
the Center for a New American Security, said in a call last week with Inside Defense.

The relatively high surge capacity of the missile should allow the Army to refill its own stockpiles, she said.

“If there’s additional industrial capacity, I’m not too worried about being able to replenish the stockpiles, though obviously I’d like to see where they
are,” Pettyjohn said.

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