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How close are US munition stockpiles to depletion, and what do they do afterwards? (hexbear.net)
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I was looking at the production numbers for stuff like thaad missiles and tomahawks. They're all in the dozens annually and seemingly have been for ages.

Given the staggering numbers these are used in, and how it seems like the way the usa fights wars now is to launch stupid amounts at people, like multiple years worth in a day. What happens when they can't? How close are they to that, interceptors are low atm but given there are hilarious announcements like: https://en.defence-ua.com/weapon_and_tech/over_1000_tomahawks_1900_aim_120s_500_sm_6s_per_year_us_moves_to_multiply_missile_production-17408.html I assume many offensive rockets are running low.

Is that level of production feasible? I know the usa has a surprising industrial base but a 20x increase in even one armament seems ambitious, do they have the factories mothballed? The skilled workers? The raw materials?

If they don't is there any inkling of what their military people intend to do when they can't realistically threaten to park a fleet off your coast and level your cities?

I'm not a military nerd, just a random person if I'm missing sometimes obvious or said sometimes funny.

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[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

This don't work like that, of course that well working military machine would be in a long time more profitable for the MIC, but capitalism work in the short time. And it's not like they don't know it, but the failing rate of profit ruthlessly promote grift over real economy and capitalism also makes worst dregs of humanity to the top, so their chief philosophy is "apres mois, le deluge". All this was already pointed out by Marx as one of capitalist contradictions.

Also, USA has been at war for as long as it existed and that grift never failed yet, so why change things now?