
Ukraine's demands for weapons since Russia's Feb. 24 assault may point to the need for the United States and its allies to invest in diverse production lines and ramping up capacity for producing air-to-air missiles and energetics for munitions, a U.S. Air Force official said on Sept. 27 at the ComDef 2022 conference in Arlington, Va. "When we're in negotiations for production, our historic tendencies for the last 30 years that I've been involved in this is to only pay…