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Its funny, under Biden I warned of the depletion of artillery munitions.

Is the US Weapons Stockpile Depleted By the War In Ukraine?
thewarhorse.org

By the numbers: US missile capacity depleting fast
Our industrial base isn't keeping up with the pace of weapons transfers to Ukraine and Israel
responsiblestatecraft.org

Lumpers couldn't help but run to Biden's defense.

Now you care.

Morons.

www.rusi.org

These guys know far more than I do

odern war for you, the US just went +400% on THAAD interceptor production and is pushing an all around production ramp on munitions that makes the cold war build up look small and has been in motion across multiple administrations.

#89 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2026-03-28 03:54 PM | Reply | Flag:
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MMMMHMMM

You referring to this?

Lockheed Martin and the U.S. Department of War (DoW) have signed a framework agreement to increase production of Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) interceptors from 96 to 400 per year. This move quadruples output to meet rising demand, with production capacity rising to 400 interceptors per year over the next seven years

from 96 to 400

per year

As of late March 2026, the U.S. and allies have heavily depleted their stockpiles in the Iran conflict, with estimates suggesting hundreds of interceptors used. One report indicated that within days of February 2026 strikes, Arab partners and the U.S. burned through 800 PAC-3 MSE or THAAD interceptors, while another estimate for the first 16 days of the conflict noted nearly 40% of U.S. THAAD inventory was

Assembling a single THAAD (Terminal High Altitude Area Defense) interceptor missile takes approximately six weeks from start to finish. However, due to complex supply chains and specialized component manufacturing, replenishing the overall stockpile takes much longer, with industry estimates suggesting it takes years to significantly increase production numbers.

GOAL of 400 per year

I stand by my earlier assessment

- Donbass was at risk for Ethnic Cleansing by the Ukrainians that part of the story is true.

No, it was never true, just another of Vlad's lies that you swallowed whole.

"The allegation that the Donbass region was at risk of ethnic cleansing or genocide by Ukrainian authorities between 2014 and 2022 has been a central narrative used by the Russian government to justify its military actions. However, this claim is widely considered false and unsubstantiated by international bodies and researchers."

"ICJ Ruling: In March 2022, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) found no evidence to support Russia's allegations of genocide, ruling that Russia must "immediately cease its military operations in Ukraine"."

more

www.google.com

"Putin has long said genocide was happening in the Donbas region of Eastern Ukraine. When gas supplies were interrupted in 2015, Putin said it "smells of genocide." In 2019, he predicted a mass slaughter of ethnic Russians there on the scale of Srebrenica, a massacre in the former Yugoslavia's civil war, when Serbs slaughtered over 7,000 Muslim men and boys. In 2021, he said the conflict in Donbas "looks like genocide."

There is no evidence for claims of genocide. But invoking it gives Putin a pretext for the invasion."

www.politifact.com

You've been supplied with these facts for years here, but you continue to spread Putin's lies about genocide and Nazis.

Their supply line would run through Basra, the third largest city in Iraq. They'd have to come down the actual Highway of Death, in the open, in the face of the USAF and IDF.

#72 | Posted by sitzkrieg a

It was just a random example of some action Iran could have taken, there are hundreds of others that our military did not prepare for.

QRFs should have been present from the beginning of the war. Not having them present is negligent. Our military having to rush MEUs and the 82nd Airborne from across the globe shows incredibly poor planning.

There is no question that is a failure of military planning. Piggy wouldn't be involved in something like that beyond a head nod of approval.

The level of incompetence in our military is staggering. We spend a trillion dollars a year on the military and MIC and we run out of missiles in a month??? Like WTAF

The problem is we don't have the military production capacity. Well why the FUCK NOT?!! We spend more than the next 15 countries on defense COMBINED and we run out of ammunition! It sounds intentional to permit a monopoly on weapons production.

We have spent decades failing to secure basic minerals that are critical to building these weapons!

We have had years to witness the new war (drones and missiles etc.) in Ukraine and yet we cannot defend our critical radar systems!! Did we not learn the capabilities of drone warfare?!

Why are we sending the USS Gerald Ford to conduct extended air operations given it was having major plumbing problems and seemingly has a MAJOR morale problem.

If the sabotage rumors are true, we had a mutiny on the pride of the American navy! LIKE WOW

Other carriers are being chased from the area, our bases are being obliterated.

That is criminal neglect!

This is not 1942 where Japan was able to roll over the Pacific because our military had been neglected for decades and there was a depression that limited spending. We spend a goddamned trillion dollars per years and we are getting our asses kicked and are about to face true defeat when we RUN OUT OF FUCKING AMMUNITION

"President Obama's travel budget for his family was estimated at $100 million for an 8-day trip to Africa.
#7 | Posted by visitor"

The trip he took to visit heads of state for three nations on the continent? Visiting with heads of state is considered the equivalent as going golfing, now?

Obama took 52 international trips in 8 years.en.wikipedia.org

Trump took 8 trips just last year alone. en.wikipedia.org So those numbers are pretty close. But in your mind every trip Obama took was for personal purposes, while Trump is all-business while golfing at his own resorts and charging the American taxpayer top-dollar for Secret Service space there.

Early on, the Egyptian, Saudi, and Jordanian governments pushed the US hard behind the scenes to pressure Israel into embracing UN Security Council Resolution 242 (en.wikipedia.org), adopted unanimously in the wake of the 1967 war. I bumped into one of more than a few messengers emanating across the seas towards DC working on behalf of this effort. This was the 1969-era, with the three aforementioned powers regarding the Syrians and Iraqis as, and I quote, "savages" and "animals." That threesome of nations had some pretty good heft as a bloc in those days. The problem, then as now, lay in Israel's territorial ambitions. The reward for implementing g Resolution 242 was, according to a waverider with whom I spoke, summed up in a single word: "petrochemicals." They weren't kidding.

So here we are now, well over fifty years later, shilling for an expansionist ethnonationalist rogue state and worrying about ... what was that word again? Oh, yes: petrochemicals.

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