US fired 1k JASSM cruise missiles in 37 days. Lockheed makes 396 per year

4fterd4rk

I'm not saying the Trump administration is compromised/influenced/managed by Russia but if they were I don't see what they'd be doing differently.

CharlieDigital

> If Lockheed dedicates the entire Troy, Alabama line exclusively to JASSM-ER and produces zero LRASM anti-ship missiles, the maximum rate is 860 per year. That drops the timeline to 2.2 years, but it means the Navy gets zero of the anti-ship missiles it would need for a Taiwan contingency. China wins by literally doing nothing. US losing on manufacturing, automobiles, renewables, human talent, global good will, etc.

maratc

> By September 2016, Lockheed Martin had delivered 2,000 total JASSMs [...] to the USAF. [0] So probably another 1k plus all production of the last 10 years is all that's left in stock. Nothing to see here, moving along. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AGM-158_JASSM

zulux

Good. They were sunk costs. This opens it up for newer ideas - the age of hideously expensive missiles is over.

ChrisArchitect

Related: U.S. is burning through Tomahawk cruise missile stockpile https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47619879 US Burned 14 Years of Missiles in 30 Days https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47619701

juancn

The Chinese YKJ-1000 is reported to cost $99000 per unit, is hypersonic and has a range of ~1300 KM. It's looking like the US needs some disruption on their armament suppliers, kinda what SpaceX did for space launches. Compare that to the 1.5M each of the JASSM cost.

romperstomper

I guess they got rid of bunch of rockets with near expiration date