The rate at which the U.S. military has used the Tomahawk missiles in the Iran war has reportedly prompted internal talks about increasing supplies
Some Pentagon officials are concerned about the “alarmingly low” supply of Tomahawk missiles remaining in the U.S. military’s arsenal after firing 850 of the weapons into Iran, according to a report.
The rate at which the U.S. military has used the Tomahawk missiles in President Donald Trump’s war in Iran, now in its fourth week, has prompted internal talks about increasing supplies, according to The Washington Post.
U.S. officials told the newspaper that the number of Tomahawks left in the Middle East was “alarmingly low.” Another official told the outlet that the U.S. supply of Tomahawks was closing in on “Winchester,” military slang that means almost out of ammunition.
Now they will print more dollars to buy some more Tomahawks and the world will bet on that dollar again. When it does this shit (USA) will collapse fast.
It’s so silly. Those were made to be used ‘surgically’: to hit specific high value targets at extended range while minimising collateral damage. If you feel the need to use 850 of them, you’ve chosen the wrong weapon system: at that point, you should be flying B52’s over whatever you want to hit. Or turn Tehran into a glass parking lot.
who males the Tomahawk and are Trump’s kids long that stock?
Raytheon (RTX Corp)
Of Iranians or missles?
those are about 3 million each, in pre trump funds. Looks like tax paying Americans will all be emptying or wallets and cutting services to replace those now too. I hope Israel is happy with us and sends our politicians a tiny fraction of that amount in bribes.
This is what scares me in a true protracted war with China. Imagine their production capacity. Even if our weapons are better, does it make a difference if they can build them 10x faster at 90% the efficacy?
US army internal planning and table top runs show we run out of munitions for the high-high fight in days in a war with China.
It’s a documented and very real concern.
I always thought that was the point of nuclear bombs. You can attack me and you might even defeat me but it’s gonna cost you. No need to have a lot of ammunition but a few that are very hurtful.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not a gun nut or at all pro war, but why do they produce multimillion dollar missiles consisting of metal, fuel and explosives for that much for a one-way use instead of using that money to prevent wars? Well, call me a sweet summer child.
Tomahawk missiles are meant to be used for high precision strikes, they’re basically the missile equivalent of a 50. cal sniper loaded with AP-I rounds which is to say explosive but deadly if you want someone or something annihilated. Problem is they’re using them like artillery or maybe a V-1 so of course it’s gonna be fucking expensive for no reason, to go back to my previous analogy it’s like using said sniper and ammo to hunt squirrels.
Are they doing this so they have an excuse not to help Taiwan next year?
Or yet another excuse of why they can’t help there own citizens. “Universal health care? You know how much that would cost???”
If china get Taiwan the US is going into the stone age overnight. No president is trying to avoid this, both parties want to protect Taiwan.
Not after musk gets his super duper mega chip factory running.
And what does Krasnov’s boss want?
This is like when a noob uses a cheat code at the beginning of the game and still loses
Invincibility cheat and then walk off the edge of the map so it doesn’t matter 🤣
Those could have been used against russia to defend Ukraine…
Tactical nukes are inevitable at this point.
Right… that’s the concern here… dwindling supplies.
Imagine a world where the US ran out of bombs.
What did the US say at the end of the war? Iran out of bombs.
Once again, comedy gold for the Kremlin.
Yes, empty those stockpiles. Don’t wowwy, nothing is going to happen, I pwomice
Gweetings, China.
That really is the best opportunity for China to take Taiwan. Wait a little bit longer until stockpiles are empty and ground troops are deployed and then strike while the USA is occupied
Why would China bother?
China is about to become what America was: #1 country, #1 economy, with oil traded in their currency, with resources available across the globe.
China’s investments in Trump are about to pay off huge.
Why fuck with a winning hand by invading a small island when they can just keep doing what they’re doing, and let Taiwan make semiconductors for China, and collect all the benefits of being Top Dog?
Taiwan might be asking to join China to protect itself from perceived American aggression at this rate.
China supposedly now has a full copy of the Epstein files too.
How could they have obtained this?
If that was true, why are they still saber rattling? Stupid dictators and bloodthirsty supporters lead to stupid wars, so I wouldn’t count it out.
Look at Ukraine. Russia had already de facto annexed most of the land that they hold today. Ukraine wasn’t willing to fight them to get it back. All of Russia’s neighbors were too scared to join EU or NATO. Europe was dependent on Russian gas and vulnerable to Russian coercion.
Putin started the war anyways.
Four years later and hundreds of thousands of soldiers dead, and the economy is crashing. Ukraine is bombing the shit out of Russia and occupied Ukraine and trying to take it all back. Oligarchs are going poor/dying. NATO now has a much larger budget than the Russian military, arguably stronger than it ever was during the Cold War. Putin has no way out of this war, if he withdraws he probably ends up in the Hague.
If he had stopped after 2014, Putin could have kept everything, but he kept breaking the ceasefires and escalating.
Because it costs them nothing to saber rattle?
What they’re doing is working, so they’re going to keep doing it.
Already kinda is, it feels like.
I’m Canadian; most people here seemed extremely happy to see our PM in China making actual deals and opening up trade.
That’s exactly why I am 99% sure that everything with Trump and the Republicans will eventually point back to China. That’s who benefits from all the chaos, all the corruption.
Russia is a nice red herring, but China is using them and will discard them as soon as it is convenient.
This is exactly from a book of Sun Zu, sit back and watch your enemies fight with each other’s and you will win without shooting a single shot.
Do not interrupt your enemy while they are making a mistake
You forget that Japan and Korea are invested in Taiwan’s safety.
If China wasn’t dealing with unknowns in their military due to corruption I think they definitely would. Still might.
The US doesn’t even formally recognized Taiwan. We were never going to enter a conventional war against a nuclear power for their sake.
Yes you are. Because they manufacture all of your microchips.
losing 60% of global microchip production (and dropping) or some Dongfeng-5Bs putting the US into the fallout universe timeline. It’s not a great choice but it’s a relatively easy one.
They’re going to run out, and then every other country in the world will bomb the shit out of us.
then every other country in the world will bomb the shit out of us
Which countries are going to bomb the US, specifically? And why would starting a war with the US improve things for those countries?
The warmongering is insane. America is going to destroy itself economically with this war. No other countries really need to get involved.
Other countries won’t, because we don’t have spoilt children running our governments. It would be deserved, and we would be quietly glad someone gave them a slap, but we wouldn’t. And let’s be honest, the US would be insufferable if anything happened to them - they still bitch and moan about Pearl Harbour.
They bombed a bunker months ago, now there’s a bunch of tomahawk missles deployed; Is The Dept. of War getting ideas from Top Gun: Maverick? /s
Take away the /s. In the first term, Steve Mnuchin was…Treasury, I think. Anyway, he’s a movie producer, on the financing side. Look up his list of credits. The things you describe sound exactly like his kinds of movies. Mnuchin was probably encouraging Trump, so he could later make a movie about it “based on a true story.”
Trump is preparing the us for invasion. Invasion by Russia. Exhaust the military supplies, run the world’s fuel supply dry so that tanks etc are useless and no one can come help, then Russia, still flush with oil can walk in with their remaining hardware unopposed
I am sad that you are making a lot sense. I am happy that I have stocked up on ammo.
I’m getting poe’s lawed by this comment. I genuinely can’t tell if this is supposed to be funny or if this is something your median .world user is ready to accept as true.
Yeah, Russia can’t get into their neighbor. They lost their Navy to a country with NO NAVY. How are they going to project power into the US? However much it cost to put trump into power has returned a million fold investment. they dont have to do shit but keep investing in the incompetent ppl in the US government.
How are they going to project power into the US?
By corrupting the US government and using its assets against Russia’s other enemies.
Not every power play has to be millitary. Remember that Putin was KGB and understands very well how control and manipulation work.
