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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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To: EnderWiggin1970

So we take your word and the word of your masters in Russia and Norkland that they are telling the truth to you, and you are relaying that to us without verifiable proof?

Right. And how soon will the massed Russian troops & armor which Putin has been holding back, appear? Before Russia goes broke or after?


21 posted on 11/15/2024 8:29:00 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: PIF
ROFL. This is all stuff I've read a dozen times in different outlets ranging from major media to blogs focused on the SMO. You must be living under a rock in MSM-land.

Russia has been prosecuting the war in a measured way since the initial thrust. All I hear from you globalist copesters is that Russia is flailing and doing all it can, whereas it is perfectly apparent they are executing the war in a measured manner as the adults in the room in this conflict. There will be no "massed" attacks like the hundreds of MSM references I've seen to completely fictitious "human wave" attacks by the Russians.

22 posted on 11/15/2024 8:36:50 AM PST by EnderWiggin1970
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To: EnderWiggin1970

Your Russian and North Korean Masters must be pleased with the disinformation propaganda you are attempting (unsuccessfully) to foist off on FR as truth.


23 posted on 11/15/2024 9:51:47 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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