James Stout
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I guess in this case, it would depend on whatever the warhead is, right?
But, like, there's 500-pound ones.
Like, there's a variety of sizes.
Obviously, the Ukrainians have used many of their long-range assets to attack Russia, inside Russia.
Previously, this had been something the United States had kind of drawn a line at that seems to no longer be the case.
And the estimated total cost is about a third of a billion dollars.
So $373 million, to be exact.
There's been like a big push in a couple of different states to increase munition production, and it has been very uneven in terms of how it's worked so far.
I've been reporting on that a couple of times so far this year.
The munition shortage and our issues in scaling up production.
I'll probably do something later this year, like a more detailed look at like what the pitfalls have been.
Of course, the State Department says there will be no adverse impact on U.S.
defense readiness as a result of this proposed sale.
I don't see why there would.
That's what they're going to say.
These are standoff munitions.