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  • Putin must be laughing his *ss off
    by ck2
  • And they're also wrecking shipfuls of seamen...
  • German plant to produce them is about to come online in weeks and reach full production in a year so there's no reason to worry.
  • Can those munitions be provided to Ukraine without US approval?
  • The Iran war could escalate in under a year. The US produces ~1.6 MIM-104s per-day; Some 224 MIM-104s/day were expended in the opening days of the conflict.

    I'd say there are arithmetically reasonable causes for worry.

  • Despite four years of close observation and support of the war on Ukraine the message from the Iran conflict is that the US has not learned a thing about how to efficiently fight a war against drones.
  • The lower the stock, the higher next year’s military budget.

    Military complex loves having a bigger budget every year. Social security solvency be damned.

    I think the lessons have been learnt well. Just not the ones that serve average American.

  • The full title is:

    > US Patriot missile stocks in Europe are ‘beyond critical’ due to Iran war, officials say