The U.S. military and its industrial partners are woefully unprepared for the kind of warfare Russia and China can throw at it. From William Schryver at imetatronink.substack.com:
Patriot Missile Launcher
According to the best information I can gather on short notice, I have been able to ascertain that current US production of the PAC-3 missiles typically used in the Patriot air defense systems is about ~500 per annum, at a cost of 4 – 6 million dollars each.
There are aspirations of increasing that rate to 650 per annum within the next year.
As for current US stocks of PAC-3 missiles, for the sake of argument, let’s allow for the possibility there are 5000 units (there aren’t near that many).
The consensus seems to be that the US can currently field ~500 operational launchers.
A single Patriot battalion typically consists of 6 batteries with 6 launchers each. Each of the 36 launchers can hold up to 16 PAC-3 missiles. So up to 576 PAC-3 missiles in a single-load of a Patriot battalion.
To prosecute war against Russia, China, or Iran, protection of the major forward bases of the United States Air Force would be the prerequisite upon which success would be predicated.
Saw one about a senator (?) asking about how old our nuke missiles are but I don’t usually save links during a power serf.
Loving me some innernets free flow of information before it gets shut off or you need a thumb reader, eye scanner to log on.
A lot of the MIC Wunderwaffen are smoke and mirrors but the externals don’t have this problem and for a much smaller expenditure.
The old more bang for your buck.
Why don’t we have hypersonic or a potential FUSA ending 8 megaton RS-28 SARMAT SATAN II ICBM with up to ten warheads that split off like seeds? (Rhett Torical)
Look for circles to be ran around the mean girlbosses of the faculty lounge HR department that is the best government that money can buy.
This just in from China and Russia-We so happy about supply chain, recruiting and WAR production manufacturing lines, do you want to play attrition?