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Citat:‼️🇺🇸🇮🇱 - Heavy expenditure of U.S. air defense munitions to defend Israel
Assuming the US Army THAAD battery in Israel used up 50% more interceptors (39+20) than the video evidence used shows, it would mean roughly 10-15% of the US Army's inventory of THAAD missiles was likely used up over this 12 day period. While US Army has been buying small number of THAAD AURs lately to allow production deliveries to FMS customers, this could force some interesting discussions with KSA, UAE and future customers (Qatar). The Army has in the past ordered 100+ THAAD AUR's in a recent single production lot ordered >100 AURs and may have to place an order that size to replenish its inventory.
📝 Carolina Lion (https://x.com/carolinalion2/status/1937973878741209349?s=46) - It looks like we used up about 15% of our THAAD inventory in little less then two weeks defending Israel from Iranian ballistic missiles. Which means we would likely run out of air defense munitions in about 6 weeks in a war against Russia or China. [Link mogu videti samo ulogovani korisnici]
Citat:From the $892m defense budget
12 SM-3 & 37 THAAD fro 2026 (THAAD procurement up 25, but SM-3 flat despite all the usage from past yr)
Cost per SM-3 up almost 10% vs 2025
Cost per THAAD also up 10% despite volume 3x
US MIC is really broken when you can 3x volume & still end up paying more per item [Link mogu videti samo ulogovani korisnici]
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