U.S. Is Burning Through Tomahawk Cruise Missile Stockpile at an Alarming Rate
- It does seem like if I was China, this would be the perfect time to make a big geopolitical move: EU and Russia tied up with Ukraine and Iran, US & Gulf allies now stuck in a war zone, US showing aging tech with large exposure to new drone warfare.
This seems likely the conflict that forces the US into an immediate course correction in military makeup, or suffer large and expensive mass casualties on the battlefield.
What happened to Battleships after Aircraft Carriers entered the picture, comes to mind.
by ChrisArchitect
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- Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47619701
- So like exactly as analysts said would happen in the event of an invasion of Iran?
- The situation makes more sense when you realize the actual geopolitical needs of America simply aren't part of the equation. Trump and his Republican enablers only care about gambling for a pre-midterm "victory" and salving the presidential ego.
If they cared about taxpayer dollars or the US' long-term strategic position, we wouldn't be in this mess. There wouldn't be an illegal/unconstitutional war fueling consequences that everyone (else) saw coming.
- I am now seeing quite a few videos of F15s trying to shoot down drones. That seems an odd choice.
Was this happening before or is it a new trend ? Is it to save on surface to air interceptors ?
- “When I took over our military, we didn’t have ammunition,” Trump said Monday. “I was told by a top general – maybe the top of them all – ‘Sir, I’m sorry. Sir, we don’t have ammunition.’ I said, ‘I’ll never let another president have that happen to him or her.’ We didn’t have ammunition.”
by johnbarron
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- Looks bad for other weapons too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47504505
by burnt-resistor
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- If you think that's bad, look at the total cost of under-defended systems lost so far (measured in billions, in the neighborhood of several and possibly more) and at the much bloodier potential of pointless deaths and humiliation than either the Bay of Pigs or Vietnam for an unnecessary ground invasion after an unnecessary air and sea war. The US MIC is primarily optimized by corporate greed and institutional inertia to fight a symmetric war from 1995. Send the Flag Code-violating action Ken doll and the sundowning real estate guy home along with troops in theater.. or lint traps stuffing and toilet cloggings will happen.
by abdelhousni
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- Operation Epstein fury doesn't bode well for the deranged White House occupant...
by thisislife2
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- They can afford to. People are forgetting that unlike Russia, the US isn't in a wartime economy mode. Iran isn't a threat to world's most powerful military. And it's not as if Iran is suddenly going to launch a ground invasion against all its neighbours (which would be disaster for it). It too is seeking a stalemate end to the war. Iran's military has been crippled. The only problem is that as the Trump administration has declared victory, it's still trying to figure out what that "victory" is. And how to deal with Netanyahu's self-destructive tantrum that dragged the US into this mess in the first place.
- The US has stepped into a huge pile of shit in this round. And instead of getting out fast, they just want to jump dive into it.
Some American people don't know that US misfortunes are celebrated elsewhere. 911 became a holiday in some regions. And if American empire falls down, I feel like at least half of the world gonna celebrate that.
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