US Burned 14 Years of Missiles in 30 Days

ReptileMan

Which should be a good waking up call to investigate the MIC about their abysmally low productivity. Iran is a good stress test for the airforce and logistics - and the lesson is that Taiwan is indefensible with current production rates. If US stocks are so depleted after something that is barely a skirmish against 8th tier adversary - a lot of people that have been responsible for procurement in the last 20 years should lose their jobs.

TheOtherHobbes

Interestingly, this leaves the US much less able to deal with a war with some other enemy.

righthand

The Xeno Databse game(?) on that site is beyond abstract in purpose. You also have to scroll to the end of the page, not article to “collect” it.

ljsprague

"The burn rate is unsustainable: The US fired 850+ Tomahawk cruise missiles in 30 days but purchased only 57 in the FY2026 budget. That is 14.9 years of production consumed in a single month." Does the author think the US can only make 57 missiles a year?

dbvn

Very unreasonable to use the amount purchased last year as the only amount they could ever get in a fiscal year

jotux

A better article: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/u-s-tomahawks-iran-war-faster-t... >The maximum rate of production is estimated to be 2,330 per year: Three contracts from Raytheon each have a capacity of 600 and a BAE has a contract to produce up to 530 missiles per year, according to a report from the Center for Strategic and International Studies, which cites Pentagon budget documents. >However, the actual procurement rate for the U.S. military is about 90 per year, according to the Center for Strategic and International Studies. The Navy requested only 57 missiles for fiscal year 2026, according to Defense Department budget documents. So the rate of production has been low because the procurement rate has been low.

pfannkuchen

Does the US actually publish real numbers about weapons production? Color me skeptical, as strategically that would be very foolish*. *Yes, the current administration is very foolish, but as far as I know they have not changed the policy in this area and if anything they would be more likely to lie than previous admins, right?

simmerup

That article feels like I'm reading a prompt output

josefritzishere

Why is this flagged? Everyone is being so well behaved.

readthenotes1

This sounds like a very good thing. We obviously need to have a more resilient supply chain if we're going to take on an actual enemy. It talked about how big Iran is as if that mattered. What about China or Russia? They're pretty big, aren't they?

knodi

The 200billion dollar requested by department of war. Wonder what that’s for…