If you think that’s bad there is an annual production hard cap on Hellfire missiles.
I won’t say how I know, I know for fact, but they can’t “ramp up” production in times of national emergency, a war where our allies want to scoop up extras, the cap is the cap is the cap.
We could ripple fire our annual production in a week’s worth of AH-64 sorties.
It’s a good thing then that Hellfires and Apaches aren’t very relevant in a Naval war vs China either.
There is no such thing as a “hard cap” for anything. It’s a matter of adding production capacity or minor redesign to replace obsolete components, which is a chronic problem with much US equipment. Such ongoing tweaks are massively burdened with process and bureaucracy however.
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