But just a few examples. I worked for Hughes Aircraft Company and most of its divisions were sold off to Raytheon. Missile Systems division was one of them. I have a friend that retired for that division. Raytheon is now begging for retired employees to come back to work because we are now out of missiles. The 2,000 or so of our stock that went to Ukraine and we only make a third of that or less in a year and now we telegraph to China and Russia we have none left and are begging people to come back to work that still no how to make them. How is that for a start we are exhausted of MANPADS.
We are very short of all artillery 105mm, 155mm, MLRS, HIMARS, and others and Biden telegraphed that to our enemies as well on live TV no less.
I said MANPADS, but should have said Stinger Missiles to those that do not know what our MANPAD is.
Stinger manpads?
What use are Stingers on the Pacific ocean?
What use are 155mm howitzers? Are you planning to line up a battalion of M777 on a carrier deck? HIMARS GMLRS lack range for any likely use.
What you need are long range antiship and land attack missiles, Standard SAM, ABM systems, etc.
Possibly ATACMs to shoot at the Spratleys from Palawan (already deployed).
The only critical item relevant to the Pacific, in use in Ukraine, is Patriot.
Take a look at the inventory in storage in 1995. The US has vast supplies of artillery shells and missiles. And many more of the modern types of shells were made since then.