As demand explodes, Raytheon forced to rehire retired Stinger engineers.
In May 2022, the US Army ordered 1,700 Stingers, but delivery is not expected until 2026, according to the Pentagon. As stated by Kremer, the production line for Stingers will take approximately 30 months to set up and for the training of employees to be completed.
“We were bringing back retired employees that are in their 70s … to teach our new employees how actually to build a Stinger,” Kremer said. “We're pulling test equipment out of warehouses and blowing the spider webs off of them," he added. Additionally, according to Greg Hayes, the CEO of RTX, the missile's electronics are outdated. “We're redesigning circuit cards [and] redesigning some of the componentry,” Hayes toldEngineers frequently promote 3D printing and automation to accelerate manufacturing, but these methods cannot be applied to the Stinger. This is because implementing such techniques would require a complete redesign of the weapon and a lengthy certification process.
This indicates that they are required to construct the weapons in the same manner as they were four decades ago, which involves manually attaching the missile's nose cone.
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