US has used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war, sources say

This is the real reason Trump keeps pausing the attacks and lies about negotiations.

What about the long range imprecise missiles? Not the Fire & Forget ones, but the Fire & Fingers Crossed ones?

China eyes islands it can take so there's less monitoring of the nine-dash area.

This is why he's crying to our allies because they don't want their resources to be used to kill children in Palestine and Iran.

How long until poserdent trump begins ordering pilots to kamikaze themselves and their F15's into precision missiles?

Military industrial complex is rubbing it's hands in glee.

Bring on the short range scattershot missiles...

I bet that gives Putin major, MAJOR giggles.

The problem is the procurement for many of these munitions.

We haven't been in an active hot shooting war in some time. So things like interceptors we order a couple dozen a year at most just to keep the pipeline active and our allies restocked. The manufacturers are making them on a slow-line process- think hand machining parts, processes that don't scale up easily.

Then we go from needing 50 a year to 500 tomorrow, another 500 next month, another 1000 the month after that, etc. The companies making them are simply not set up for bulk assembly-line production.
They can start, but it takes quite some time to set that up. Especially when the missile itself was not engineered for mass production.

It's a similar deal with more mundane munitions like 155mm shells. Things like the propellant are only made by a tiny handful of companies as it's a dangerous business with low product demand. So with Ukraine and other wars we suddenly want 100,000 shells per month, and we're literally building assembly lines from scratch.