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By the numbers: US missile capacity depleting fast
Responsible Statecraft ^ | 11/11/24 | Mike Fredenburg

Posted on 11/14/2024 6:04:03 PM PST by EnderWiggin1970

Regardless of the merits or demerits of the Biden administration’s policies on the wars in Ukraine and Gaza and the wider Middle East, it has become clear that the United States has been using and giving away its missiles faster than it can produce them.

It is also clear that from the perspective of missile inventories and production, the United States is far from prepared to engage confidently in a sustained direct conflict with a peer competitor like China.

This is demonstrated by the fact that U.S. missile and artillery shell reserves are currently inadequate to provide Ukraine with what it needs to keep its missile defense systems supplied with interceptors. Indeed, the inability of the United States and its NATO allies to provide enough air defense missiles — a.k.a. interceptors — has made it easier for Russia to attack and destroy key military targets, as well as cripple Ukraine’s energy infrastructure.

This missile deficit parallels the well-documented lack of U.S. artillery shell production that has enabled Russia to increase the rate at which it’s taking control over territories in Ukraine today.

(Excerpt) Read more at responsiblestatecraft.org ...


TOPICS: China; Russia; Taiwan; Ukraine
KEYWORDS: arsenal; artilleryshells; military; missile; missiles
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At least Trump will stem the bleeding, but he or his surrogates also need to root out the corruption and inefficiency of a MIC that produces astonishingly little for astonishing amounts of money.
1 posted on 11/14/2024 6:04:03 PM PST by EnderWiggin1970
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To: EnderWiggin1970

‘dei’ taking up funding?


2 posted on 11/14/2024 6:06:21 PM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within ? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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Biden has to give them all away before Trump takes over.


3 posted on 11/14/2024 6:06:44 PM PST by BipolarBob (Enough of this talk about narcissists, let's get back to talking about me.)
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To: EnderWiggin1970
Double edge sword. Replacing obsolete systems, good. Spending extra cash now, bad.

I dunno what's right and good. Glad we have the best folks in place to make these choices. Republic.

4 posted on 11/14/2024 6:14:06 PM PST by Damifino (The true measure of a man is found in what he would do if he knew no one would ever find out.)
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To: EnderWiggin1970

To be fair, there is still a chip shortage. Raytheon has said repeatedly that they are being limited by the supply of secure chips.

Our US chip industry was basically destroyed some years ago and now it is biting us in the arse.


5 posted on 11/14/2024 6:20:50 PM PST by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: rktman

Lack of chips, actually. We do not have the ability to produce the required chips in the US at the required volume at the current time, and prior efforts to source chips from China resulted in predictable results.


6 posted on 11/14/2024 6:24:58 PM PST by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: Damifino

It isn’t just obsolete systems were sending over, though.


7 posted on 11/14/2024 6:25:31 PM PST by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: EnderWiggin1970

Bkmk


8 posted on 11/14/2024 6:28:13 PM PST by sauropod ("This is a time when people reveal themselves for who they are." James O'Keefe Ne supra crepidam)
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To: Spktyr

“It isn’t just obsolete systems were sending over, though.”

The Zeepers claim it’s obsolete weapons, but I expect THE TRUTH to get out once Trump takes over, and it will be VERY UGLY.


9 posted on 11/14/2024 6:30:48 PM PST by BobL
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To: EnderWiggin1970

Can we get a more reliable source instead of a random fly by night blog? Why should we believe it?


10 posted on 11/14/2024 6:48:52 PM PST by nwrep
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To: EnderWiggin1970

What percentage of missiles are redirected from Ukraine?


11 posted on 11/14/2024 7:21:50 PM PST by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper)
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To: nwrep

Why do you call an official publication of the Quincy Institute, with articles written by many different authors, a “fly by night blog”? The article is rich with hyperlinks to articles on the various points the author brings up. If you don’t want to accept what it is saying you can just do so without making a rather pointless denial.


12 posted on 11/14/2024 7:43:16 PM PST by EnderWiggin1970
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To: BobL

To quote one recent news post, we shipped over a THAAD battery to help out the Israelis. THAAD is a current front line US Army system.

In Ukraine, we’re shipping over the front line NASAMS systems, the kind used to protect Washington DC. We are shipping over RIM-7s, which are used as air defense on even our new carriers. We’re sending over recent build and current issue Stinger MANPADS missile systems. Lots more stuff too - modern TOW-2s, etc. https://www.state.gov/the-united-states-announces-significant-new-military-assistance-for-ukraine/


13 posted on 11/14/2024 7:52:46 PM PST by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: Spktyr

No.

The Patriots going to Ukraine are version 7.1 with 8.1 being produced right now.

Much of this is brand new stuff, our stuff (not export versions specifically built for Ukraine)...

We handed over 10,000 Javelin missiles, our missiles, from our stock, not missiles made for Ukraine, and Javelin is still our mainstay medium AT system which our own troops use and not being replaced by anything newer.


14 posted on 11/14/2024 7:57:57 PM PST by Red6
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To: EnderWiggin1970

Thanks for correcting me.


15 posted on 11/14/2024 7:59:39 PM PST by nwrep
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To: BobL

***The Zeepers claim it’s obsolete weapons, but I expect THE TRUTH to get out once Trump takes over, and it will be VERY UGLY.***

They also bragged that the money was being spent here to replace the old stuff, but that is refuted in the very first sentence. We aren’t replacing them fast enough.


16 posted on 11/14/2024 8:38:01 PM PST by rxh4n1 ( )
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To: EnderWiggin1970

On the flip side, we have no domestic TNT production. We shut down the last plant in 1986. McConnell has gotten the 485 million dollar pork prize to build a new TNT production facility in Kentucky. It’s going to be built and run by a Turkish company, way to go Mitch /s.


17 posted on 11/15/2024 12:35:39 AM PST by Waverunner
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To: EnderWiggin1970

The US is now producing over 50,000 155mm artillery shells per month, and will produce over 100,000 shells per month by next year.

The US has already tripled prewar shell production and is on track to increase it by over 600%.

https://x.com/Osinttechnical/status/1856901019386405180


18 posted on 11/15/2024 5:51:04 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Spktyr

we shipped over a THAAD battery to help out the Israelis


No; the battery was already stationed there - it was just activated is all.


19 posted on 11/15/2024 5:52:22 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: PIF
That's in agreement with a link in this article, which points out that this increase is still far below current Russian production, which is also increasing. And the Norks are outpacing entire European production by a large factor as well. Not to mention it's been commonplace lately to point out the $100K Excalibur shells are nearly useless because of Russian jamming. And Ukrainian artillery pieces are badly depleted compared to Russian assets and production.

So the globalists are in a poor position. Their Ukrainian chattel are still doing what they can, but the front is steadily cracking up and it's reflected in the daily sitreps.

20 posted on 11/15/2024 8:15:25 AM PST by EnderWiggin1970
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