It IS an issue if stand-off war is your only war, and it seems to be the exclusive approach here. If you run out of long-range precision weapons, what do you have left? Boots on the ground? That's not going to happen, and that means you will never win this on and off war.
replyThe USAF has a pretty substantial inventory of stand-off weapons, and an absolutely enormous inventory of guided bombs.
replyThey do, but the current leadership does not have any appetite for entering Iran's airspace after the last downing drama. If Iran captures a pilot, there is going to be no more room for market manipulation.
replyThey want this problem to be solved. So you spend the munitions, forcing the manufacturing problem to get fixed. This works in favor of Anduril, which cares about manufacturing scalability
replyNever high and a significant number were donated to ukraine specifically because a ground launched pgm has never been a high priority for the US since the USAF exists.
replyNo PrSM were donated to Ukraine, and only a small number of legacy ATACMS were delivered. Under 200 from open sources...
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