As above, you cannot be blasting the MIC (military-industrial complex) if you need missiles.
You have to learn to love Raytheon.
Anything else is incoherent.
As for FMS (foreign military sales), that’s how you get some other people shooting at your enemies, plus supporting your production capacity. The history is interesting. FMS in the late 1930’s primed US industry (particularly in aircraft production) to meet US needs. US military orders at the time would not have done this.
Agreed on Raytheon.
Send them the order for 10,000 units.
To compare the MICs of today with US military needs being met by the industry of pre and during WWII is what’s incoherent, IMO.
There are too many examples; one is the prototype for the P51. 120 days from design contract to first flight. MICs today can’t even produce a vastly over-inflated bill in that time period.