is the US running out of weapons?
>news.usni.org
>U.S. Missiles Sent to Ukraine Aren’t Easily Replaced, Panel Tells Senate
>The United States has shipped about a third of its existing arsenal of Stinger anti-air and Javelin anti-armor missiles to Ukraine – systems that are not quickly replaced – two experts on Pentagon buying said Tuesday.
>Testifying before the Senate Armed Service Committee, Ellen Lord, who served as the Defense Department’s top acquisition official, said Stingers cannot be replaced “within the next couple of years” because its production line has been shut down. Even simple items, such as diodes, used to regulate voltage for these systems could be difficult to obtain.
>“Even with Javelin, we are probably five years” away from replenishing that stock despite its manufacturing line remaining open, she added.
>David Berteau, chief executive officer of the Professional Services Council, said, “we have yet to see a single contract in place” for the replacement of systems going to Ukraine following Russia’s Feb. 24 invasion. Noting the one-third depletion of Stingers and Javelins, he said, “we’re behind.”
>Building up the stockpile of munitions has “usually been the billpayer” in Pentagon spending plans, and the United States is paying that price now, Lord said. She said that billpaying has included not making investments to modernize everything from existing infrastructure to tooling.
U.S. Missiles Sent to Ukraine Aren’t Easily Replaced, Panel Tells Senate
we have no weapons
They're being used in the most efficient way possible: by other countries against our enemies. We don't have to send any troops and it costs the minimum amount to ship them over.
>Even simple items, such as diodes, used to regulate voltage for these systems could be difficult to obtain
kek. Just imagine even a brief encounter between China and Taiwan/US.Even a brief and small in scale incident
>bomb TSMC plants
>watch the western economies collapse and struggle to recover for decades
They were saying this like four months ago.
>Aren’t Easily Replaced
meanwhile, the Russian equipment losses are simply irreplaceable, they don't use aircraft because if its lost, its gone
>being sold to your enemies
Goddamn right.
The US will never ever run out of weapons. Deal with it.
>these missiles aren't easily replaced you know, we need at least trillion dollars mr. president t. mic
So far they've all been used against our enemies.
well, its true that most countries don't have huge stockpiles of advanced weapons, and they get used up in intense combat many times faster than they're manufactured during peacetime
>when it’s gone it’s gone forever
I’ve often wondered why Russia just didn’t do a full blitzkrieg with what they really have in their arsenal, and that reason alone seems to be why.
I'm sure rossia can take Washington through Alaska now, pootin plz go do it kek
if they fielded more vehicles they'd have even less infantry, they're already making penal battalions of prisoners
that's a load of horseshit, they are operating on the business end of a firehose that pumps over 600 billion a year, they are doing this show and dance to get more from that hose, the capacity is enormous
They're just asking for money user, it's all the same everywhere. Don't draw any conclusions from that
No shit they’re depleting our stockpiles so China has little resistance when invading.
money doesn't separate isotopes
Russia can't declare a full war status unless being directly attacked on Russia soils, so they can only declare this as SO, with SO they can only use about a third (iirc) of their force so they cant go full blitz on Ukr. That's why when there were some explosions on Russia soils, the Ukr quickly deny those where their to avoid the full war declaration
so it's just e-begging?
this is the first time I have heard someone argue that MIC doesn't like money
or that IRL thing before e-begging, whatever it was called
show me a wad of cash dividing isotopes on demand
It's not that, they just preparing the ground for new contracts, so people wouldn't complaint about inflated military budget.
bit of a misrepresentation
the argument was that higher cash inflow doesn't automatically equate to higher production of materiel
they'll accept more money, of course, but if that money isn't invested in manufacturing—which it evidently wasn't—where do you expect the increase in production to come from?
show me a better argument, javelins don't need fucking isotopes
The glory that is the jews of Wall St.
Send all production to communist China
Prepare for war with communist China.
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but it's still bullshit, they did this same song and dance when they did the military intervention on libya, that they ran out of missiles and bombs, but miraculously that wasn't a problem after senate agreed to separate budget for it
Why is Russia enemy and Ukraine friend? Russia was bad because it was Jewish but Putin removed them from power in the 90s.
Russia is continuously working to bring down the USA and we're their #1 enemy.
>Russia
Putin. Kill Putin, make a wine cup of his skull, become the Great Khan in place of the Great Khan.