Posted on 08/14/2024 8:10:55 AM PDT by whyilovetexas111
You can be the best shot in the world, but your expertise won’t count for much if you run out of bullets. The same principle holds true for a country’s armed forces. Just ask the U.S. Navy. It’s getting low on munitions—yet the Pentagon is refusing to ask for sufficient supplies to replace them.
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Maybe they can ask to borrow some back from Ukraine.
Didn’t Biden just sell some bombs to Saudi Arabia.
Liquidating inventory for cash.
It must be the constant battles we’ve been fighting against the Japs in the Pacific. We’ve fired so many shells and launched so many missiles that we’ve depleted our stocks.
Communists from within setting us up for the invasion of the USA.
Also, PBP.
(Please be presidential.) Thanks.
Zero naval munitions have gone to Ukraine.
They should have seen what the state of the military was in 1939.
Ukraine doesnt use USN munitions. Ok, a tiny number of Harpoons from Norway.
More likely stocks are aging out.
How many militaries actually are stupid enough to plain tell potential and real enemies a true state of their military readiness ? ...... Oh wait .....
All part of the plan at Rat Party Headquarters. After all,it’s been well established that the United States Armed Forces are the cause of all death...all suffering...all oppression on earth.
Bingo! The global communist WEF needs the US to be weakened a great deal so the patriots among us just give up and give in to them. That’s what the UKE folly was all about.
The ONLY thing I can be sure of regarding this news story is that it is not about munitions. I'm onto the DSC, and this is their MO - take an agenda item, and over many news cycles spin the "news" that fits their desired outcome.
First we hear the USAF cannot afford fighter jet or bombers, then we hear the USN cannot afford ships. Now, we learn the USN cannot afford ammunition for its ships and planes.
This is the result of Biden cutting the defense budget below 3.2% of the GDP, and Biden Inflation making planes ships and ammo to expensive to buy.
None of the munitions listed ever went to Ukraine. Standard missiles, Tomahawk cruise missiles and Sea Sparrow are unique to naval warships.
Well, they sent them all to Ukraine. I guarantee you they fully expect an invasion from China and won’t do a thing about it.
I don’t believe Ukraine has a navy per se, and what munitions they put on their improvised sea drones likely aren’t our standard naval issue described here.
Reference
Biden’s 2023 US arms handout to Israel immediately after the Oct 7, 2023 attack:
<><>57,000 155mm artillery shells
<><>more than 5,000 Mk82 unguided or “dumb” bombs,
<><>more than 5,400 Mk84 2,000 pound warhead bombs,
<><>around 1,000 GBU-39 small diameter bombs,
<><>approximately 3,000 JDAMs, which turn unguided bombs into guided “smart” bombs,
<><>BLU-109 bunker busters w/ 2,000 pound warheads designed to penetrate concrete shelters.
On March 30, 2024 Joe Biden secretly authorized billions of dollars in new bombs and fighter jets for Israel, despite US officials publicly expressing worry over mounting Palestinian death toll in Tel Aviv’s brutal war on besieged Gaza.
The arms approved by Biden/Harris include deadly 1,800 MK84 2,000-pound bombs and 500 MK82 500-pound bombs, State and Defense Department officials told the Washington Post.
The State Department last week approved the transfer of 25 F-35A fighter jets and engines, a US official added. The planes and engines are estimated to be worth around $2.5 billion.
There are no corresponding announcements on the Defense Security Cooperation Agency’s website where such notifications are normally posted.
On Friday, Senator Bernie Sanders criticised Biden administration’s approval of sending more weapons to Israel. “The US cannot beg Netanyahu to stop bombing civilians one day and the next send him thousands more 2,000 lb. bombs that can level entire city blocks. This is obscene,” Sanders said on X, sharing the report of Washington Post. “We must end our complicity: No more bombs to Israel,” Sanders reiterated.
Biden also recently gave Israel an extra $billion tax dollars but its not clear why.....
seems like Biden cant help himself from putting America last.
While some of these are listed as US arms “sales,” in at least one instance, when it came time to pay, Israel got the US Congress to change the US arms packages to a “gift.”
There’s Obama’s $38 billion deal covering fiscal years 2019-2028 that includes:
<><>-annual US payments to Israel of $3.3 billion in “military financing,”
<><>-$500 million a year for Israel’s missile defense operations in the Negev, a foreign aid first,
<><>-A phasing-out of Israel’s decades-long “special arrangement”
<><>ie. Israel used 26.3% of US aid on its own global defense industry (not on US-made weapons).
<><>-Eliminates Israel using some 13% of US aid to buy military fuel.
<><>-will allow Israel to update “the lion’s share” of its fighter aircraft,
<><>includes purchasing additional F-35 Joint Strike Fighters.
<><>Israel is to initially receive thirty-three F-35 aircraft,
<><>the first two F-35’s will be delivered in December.
The (a) weaponry build-up from Obama 2018 into 2028, (b) follows the $30 billion weaponry deal Israel signed in 2007, which expires at the end of fiscal 2018, and (c) a systematic buildup of Israeli arms, like this one in 2015.
ISRAEL – JOINT DIRECT ATTACK MUNITION TAIL KITS AND MUNITIONS
Defense Security Cooperation Agency
Media/Public Contact
pm-cpa@state.gov
Transmittal No 15-36
WASHINGTON, May 19, 2015
As required by US law, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency delivered the required certification notifying Congress of this possible sale to Israel on May 18, 2015: Joint Direct Attack Munition Tail Kits, munitions, and associated equipment, parts and logistical support for an estimated cost of $1.879 billion.
The Government of Israel has requested:
<><>14,500 KMU-556C/B Joint Direct Attack Munitions (JDAM) tail kits
<><>consisting of 10,000 for Mk-84;
<><>500 for Mk-83;
<><>and,4,000 for Mk-82;
<><>3,500 Mk-82 bombs; 4,500 Mk-83 bombs;
<><>50 BLU-113 bombs;
<><>4,100 GBU-39 Small Diameter bombs;
<><>1,500 Mk-83 Paveway kits;
<><>700 BLU-109 Paveway kits;
<><>3,000 AGM-114K/R Hellfire Missiles,
<><>250 AIM-120C Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missiles;
<><>and 500 DSU-38A/B Detector Laser Illuminated Target kits for JDAMs.
The proposed sale of this equipment will provide Israel
<><>the ability to support its self-defense needs
<><>enable Israel to maintain operational capability of its existing systems
<><>and will enhance Israel’s interoperability with the United States.
Israel already has these munitions in its inventory, and will have no difficulty absorbing the additional munitions into its armed forces.
All questions regarding this proposed Foreign Military Sale should be directed to the State Department’s Bureau of Political Military Affairs, Office of Congressional and Public Affairs, pm-cpa@state.gov.
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