Discussion
The US Burned 14 Years of Missiles in 30 Days
righthand: The Xeno Databse game(?) on that site is beyond abstract in purpose. You also have to scroll to the end of the page, not article to “collect” it.
rdevilla: Flagged for politics
TheOtherHobbes: Interestingly, this leaves the US much less able to deal with a war with some other enemy.
ReptileMan: Which should be a good waking up call to investigate the MIC about their abysmally low productivity. Iran is a good stress test for the airforce and logistics - and the lesson is that Taiwan is indefensible with current production rates.If US stocks are so depleted after something that is barely a skirmish against 8th tier adversary - a lot of people that have been responsible for procurement in the last 20 years should lose their jobs.
simmerup: That article feels like I'm reading a prompt output
pfannkuchen: Does the US actually publish real numbers about weapons production? Color me skeptical, as strategically that would be very foolish*.*Yes, the current administration is very foolish, but as far as I know they have not changed the policy in this area and if anything they would be more likely to lie than previous admins, right?
asdff: Yeah they do. At the end of the day the budgets are public, and when the US government wants more of something they don't make it in house. They put out a call for proposals for more of something, and private companies (e.g. general dynamics or raytheon) bid for the contract with very specifically defined requirements. I'm sure it is ripe information for foreign intelligence but it has been playing out like this for decades at this point.https://www.war.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/4026238/fa...
pfannkuchen: > the budgets are publicLOLThere have been so many disclosures of secret things happening in past decades, decades after the fact. Did they stop doing that? This seems really naive to me.
josefritzishere: Why is this flagged? Everyone is being so well behaved.
dbvn: Very unreasonable to use the amount purchased last year as the only amount they could ever get in a fiscal year
jotux: I rewrote the article, it's even better now:The tomahawk entered service in 1983, in 2026 they only produced 57. DO THE MATH!This means the military can only have (2025-1983) * 57 = 2394 Tomahawks.But the military says they have approximately 3000-4000 tomahawks in inventory. Is it a conspiracy? How could they POSSIBLY have more than 2394 if they can ONLY MAKE 57 PER YEAR?!prompt: rite me article about US only can make 57 tomohok missels a year but looks lik they have moar than that
