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[–] brachiosaurus@mander.xyz 2 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

"According to a deep dive by defense writer Mike Fredenberg, along with all the other diminished capacity, the standard missile (SM-3) variant was down 33% "

Their definition of being low on munitions is that they don't have enough to win ww3.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 0 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Again, given the rate of use of these missiles, it's quite clear they can't keep this up for long. Each intercept takes at least two missiles, and production rate is nowhere close to the use rate. Thousands of missiles might sound like a lot, but that's really a few months supply.

[–] brachiosaurus@mander.xyz 0 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

The day they stop dropping bombs is the day they are actually running out of these

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 2 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

Let's see what happens in a month.