re: Many outlets reporting on diminished US munitions

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ABC provided detailed figures as seen below, but there are variations of this story from NYT, CNN, NBC, etc today.

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If the MSM reported that water is wet, I'd have to open a facet to confirm it.

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If the MSM reported that water is wet, I'd have to open a facet to confirm it.




They love to lie. Are nothing but trolls now.

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There is little question that stockpiles has been impacted.

How much?

No one knows for certain.*

If these numbers/info is accurate, the motherfricking source is a damned traitor.

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The first requirement for command of the reload is time, and the Patriot interceptor missile illustrates this timing problem. Every PAC-3 MSE interceptor carries a production lead time of 24 months for the missile and 30 months for the solid rocket motor. Such timelines are due to physical industrial constraints, such as the lengthy curing time required for solid rocket motors and the complex, multi-year process of qualifying any new component supplier. Interceptors funded under the April 2026 contract will probably not arrive until mid-2028 at the earliest

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Washington has begun moving in this direction. In January 2026, the Pentagon and Lockheed Martin signed a seven-year framework agreement to raise PAC-3 MSE production from 600 missiles annually to 2,000 a year by 2030. This is a serious effort to buy time before the next emergency. Still, the scale of the gap remains striking. Lockheed delivered only 620 interceptors in 2025, or about 1.7 missiles per day for a global network of allies. While the production curve is improving, its industrial slope cannot match modern combat.

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During the first four days of the Iran war, coalition forces expended Patriot rounds at an estimated rate of 225 missiles per day, while Lockheed’s Camden facility produced just 1.7 per day. This consumption-to-production ratio of roughly 132:1 highlights a massive warfighting endurance gap.

The primary bottleneck sits one level below the prime contractor. Boeing produces the active radar seeker for every PAC-3 MSE from a single facility in Huntsville, Alabama, and in 2025 it delivered only around 650 to 700 seekers. Recognizing this choke point, the Pentagon signed a framework in April 2026 to triple seeker production, an admission that final assembly capacity is irrelevant if the sub-tier cannot keep up

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