U.S. Races to Accomplish Iran Mission Before Munitions Run Out

[ZunarJ5]

We could have had healthcare.

[moogly]

You are paying for universal healthcare. For Israelis, that is.

[onlyrealcuzzo]

US healthcare costs on the order of $3T per year.

The Iraq war cost about $2T over a decade.

You could have about 10% subsidized healthcare, which I would obviously argue is better than pointless war killing tons of people.

But you couldn't just "have healthcare".

[eqvinox]

Interesting aspect: if the ammo is all used up in Iran, it can't be sold or given to Ukraine.

Tinfoil hat time?

[onlyrealcuzzo]

You know who exports a lot of oil and gas NOT through the straight of hormuz?

[duxup]

Lets say I'm on team regime change... aren't I also hoping someone we like somehow rises up and takes over that whole country too?

That seems unlikely.

[aftbit]

This is reminding us something that we should never have forgotten - modern war has an insatiable demand for munitions.

To take just one example out of dozens, the US fired somewhere from 100 to 150 THAAD interceptors - about ¼ of the stockpile - during the 12 days war in 2025. We produce just under 100 per year. There are plans to raise that number to 400 per year.

The Ukrainians were expending somewhere around 10,000 drones per day in mid 2025. Russian numbers are likely broadly similar.

Many historical conflicts have featured a substantial bottleneck on multiple munitions during ramp up. World War 1 had artillery shell crises across Britain, France, Russia, and Germany. World War II had similar, especially for the Russians and Germans. The US was short on ammo early in the Korean war.

Modern mechanized combat demands an insane manufacturing and logistics chain. It can burn through stockpiles incredibly fast, especially of high capability expensive munitions. War production levels are utterly unsustainable during peace time.

This is why peer and near-peer conflict is as much an economic and productive game as it is a military one. Shock and awe takes a tremendous amount of resources to accomplish at all, let alone sustain.

[panny]

archive link https://archive.is/usjGR

[righthand]

Lol no support here for these troops or military operations. Go ahead run out of ammo, I asked for healthcare. If it means a pedophile doesn’t get prosecuted and more innocents die as we bomb cities, I surely do not care just like they don’t care about healthcare. I only have support for those that defend our people, not those that attack others for “reasons”. See you in the afterlife or lack their of. Enjoy your propaganda.

[lupire]

If this is true, the real problem is why the US was so undersupplied in core munitions.

[spaghetdefects]

I think the real problem is that the US keeps attacking people at the behest of Israel and to the determent of US citizens.

[SilverElfin]

They used up a lot of the remaining tomahawk inventory apparently. These operations, done without congressional approval, are wasting literal billions. Repositioning multiple carrier groups and spending lots of munitions isn’t cheap. And yet the administration thinks some alleged small scale Somalian fraud deserves all our attention.

[lumost]

If China was to attack Taiwan, now would be the time. The current world order is at least in part based around the notion of the US (and allies) having the military capacity to fight any plausible combination of foes at all times. That this military capacity was used in accordance to a set of rules with input from allies and partners made the system tolerable.

If the US lacks the munitions to fight all of these conflicts, and is unreliable to allies or foes leads to a high likelihood of conflict.

[rurban]

4 weeks, Trump said. And the stockpile crisis looks like a hoax