The Javelin has been an effective weapon in Ukrainian forces' fight against Russia's invading military.
Taiclet told CBS News' "Face the Nation" that efforts to nearly double production "will take a number of months, maybe even a couple of years to get there because we have to get our supply chain to-to also crank up," but he expected this to happen "in a reasonable amount of time."
"We're starting now to ramp it up because we have an active production line right now that the president saw," Taiclet said. "We've got a supply chain that's active in addition to that. So we can start turning up the heat now and ramping the production immediately because of those circumstances," he added.
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