Posted on 02/22/2023 2:04:39 PM PST by hcmama
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The war machine hustle
Should work out well when the Sino/Russia alliance gets uppity.
Lloyd Austin is certainly paying dividends to his former employer.
Stupid or purposeful? I’ll leave the answer for debate.
Sure tell China how depleted our arms supply is. What could go wrong?
We have an idiot retard in the White House hell bent on destroying this country and a media participating in the downfall!
If China decides they are ready to knock this country over the time couldn’t be better for them!
One of the reasons given for us to support this war was to diminish Russian military capability. Oops.
The US was dragged into this by the FJB minions to do exactly what Raytheon is sounding the alarm about - our stocks are severely depleted and our capability to defend ourselves has been compromised. It was intentionally done by Brandon on behalf of the PRC and the WEF
The pentagon concentrated its money on producing expensive weapon systems but forgot to include enough ammo fore real war. Now paying the price.
You spelled China wrong.
Javelins were never intended to be a primary antitank system. In a normal war, as planned anyway, these infantry ATGMs were there to protect the infantry should any enemy tanks get through all the other antitank systems, starting with air interdiction, artillery, tanks.
In Ukraine the lack of, or inadequacy of, all the other such systems made Javelin relatively more important and much more frequently used, contrary to US doctrine, but necessary due to these different circumstances.
The effect of that use of Javelins (and Stugna, NLAW, etc) was to effectively exterminate all the Russian active armored units in the first few months. The Russians have since proven incapable of resuming mobile warfare.
“There are roughly 750 US foreign military bases; they are spread across 80 nations!”
That is Foreign Military contract production line years. That does not count what the US and other countries already have in stock.
We probably buy and field the latest configurations of these missiles. That is probably not that same configurations the Ukrainians are getting.
Very little of US defense spending is spent on cheap and simple artillery shells.
And US doctrine does not contemplate months of artillery duels with massed guns. It assumes, implicitly, that such use and concentration of enemy artillery would be prevented by other US weapon systems and aerial interdiction.
Ukraine does not have anything like the USAF to call on, so they are reduced to playing the same game the Russians are. Both Ukrainians and Russians are reduced to this primitive sort of warfare by their limitations.
But Russia is losing and Ukraine is winning bigly.
DC politicians gonna be rich.
And we see one of the intended results of the generational quagmire we’ve been blundered into. Raytheon comes up Aces again. Care to bet that Biden Bro Construction Co. does so as well?
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