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Re: US Burned 14 Years of Missiles in 30 Days

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Post by jotux »

A better article: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/u-s-tomahawks-iran-war-faster-t...

>The maximum rate of production is estimated to be 2,330 per year: Three contracts from Raytheon each have a capacity of 600 and a BAE has a contract to produce up to 530 missiles per year, according to a report from the Center for Strategic and International Studies, which cites Pentagon budget documents.

>However, the actual procurement rate for the U.S. military is about 90 per year, according to the Center for Strategic and International Studies. The Navy requested only 57 missiles for fiscal year 2026, according to Defense Department budget documents.

So the rate of production has been low because the procurement rate has been low.

Re: US Burned 14 Years of Missiles in 30 Days

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Post by palmotea »

lateforwork wrote: post #10
ljsprague wrote: post #8

"The burn rate is unsustainable: The US fired 850+ Tomahawk cruise missiles in 30 days but purchased only 57 in the FY2026 budget. That is 14.9 years of production consumed in a single month." Does the author think the US can only make 57 missiles a year?

Do you think the US has idle capacity that can be activated at a moment's notice?

> Do you think the US has idle capacity that can be activated at a moment's notice?

I'm sure some very smart MBA increased profits by eliminating spare capacity or making cuts that would make it much harder to spin up. That's American business culture: focus on this quarter or this year, nothing else matters.

Re: US Burned 14 Years of Missiles in 30 Days

#13

Post by pfannkuchen »

Does the US actually publish real numbers about weapons production? Color me skeptical, as strategically that would be very foolish*.

*Yes, the current administration is very foolish, but as far as I know they have not changed the policy in this area and if anything they would be more likely to lie than previous admins, right?

Re: US Burned 14 Years of Missiles in 30 Days

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Post by HoldOnAMinute »

palmotea wrote: post #12
lateforwork wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you think the US has idle capacity that can be activated at a moment's notice?

> Do you think the US has idle capacity that can be activated at a moment's notice? I'm sure some very smart MBA increased profits by eliminating spare capacity or making cuts that would make it much harder to spin up. That's American business culture: focus on this quarter or this year, nothing else matters.

We can just buy them off Alibaba

Re: US Burned 14 Years of Missiles in 30 Days

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Post by risc_taker »

jotux wrote: post #11

A better article: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/u-s-tomahawks-iran-war-faster-t... >The maximum rate of production is estimated to be 2,330 per year: Three contracts from Raytheon each have a capacity of 600 and a BAE has a contract to produce up to 530 missiles per year, according to a report from the Center for Strategic and International Studies, which cites Pentagon budget documents. >However, the actual procureme…

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Re: US Burned 14 Years of Missiles in 30 Days

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Post by asdff »

pfannkuchen wrote: post #13

Does the US actually publish real numbers about weapons production? Color me skeptical, as strategically that would be very foolish*. *Yes, the current administration is very foolish, but as far as I know they have not changed the policy in this area and if anything they would be more likely to lie than previous admins, right?

Yeah they do. At the end of the day the budgets are public, and when the US government wants more of something they don't make it in house. They put out a call for proposals for more of something, and private companies (e.g. general dynamics or raytheon) bid for the contract with very specifically defined requirements. I'm sure it is ripe information for foreign intelligence but it has been playing out like this for decades at this point.

https://www.war.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/4026238/fa...

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Post by [deleted] »

jotux wrote: post #11

A better article: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/u-s-tomahawks-iran-war-faster-t... >The maximum rate of production is estimated to be 2,330 per year: Three contracts from Raytheon each have a capacity of 600 and a BAE has a contract to produce up to 530 missiles per year, according to a report from the Center for Strategic and International Studies, which cites Pentagon budget documents. >However, the actual procureme…

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Re: US Burned 14 Years of Missiles in 30 Days

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Post by pfannkuchen »

asdff wrote: post #18
pfannkuchen wrote: post #13

Does the US actually publish real numbers about weapons production? Color me skeptical, as strategically that would be very foolish*. *Yes, the current administration is very foolish, but as far as I know they have not changed the policy in this area and if anything they would be more likely to lie than previous admins, right?

Yeah they do. At the end of the day the budgets are public, and when the US government wants more of something they don't make it in house. They put out a call for proposals for more of something, and private companies (e.g. general dynamics or raytheon) bid for the contract with very specifically defined requirements. I'm sure it is ripe information for foreign intelligence but it has been playing out like this for…

> the budgets are public

LOL

There have been so many disclosures of secret things happening in past decades, decades after the fact. Did they stop doing that? This seems really naive to me.

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