The U.S. Army has used up much of its stockpile of highly accurate long-range missiles during its five-month war with Iran, according to three people familiar with the data, raising concerns about the military’s readiness for future conflicts.
The missiles are principally the Army’s surface-to-surface weapons, known as Army Tactical Missile Systems (ATACMS) and Precision Strike Missiles (PrSM). The U.S. has used “virtually all” of these weapons, according to two of the sources.
The degree to which the military is running out of ATACMS and Precision Strike Missiles has not been previously reported.
The long-range munitions are an important part the military’s arsenal, allowing accurate strikes from a safe distance. U.S.-supplied ATACMS have played a key role in the war in Ukraine, allowing Ukrainian forces to attack targets inside Russia. The PrSM is a newer, more advanced generation that will replace the ATACMS, which have a shorter range.
Why do I have a terrible sneaking suspicion, propaganda or not, that this will be used as an excuse.
Rumors are floating that Russia is toying with making a move on Poland, or perhaps a smaller NATO member. One theory is they’re just posturing to detract from the situation with Ukraine and appear strong. Despite this, Ukraine relies heavily on assistance from EU/NATO countries for supplies/money. Even mildly credible threats may force some of those countries to scale back some assistance and focus on internal efforts, which impacts Ukraine’s supply chain.
How does this tie in with the US? If a NATO country is attacked and goes Article 5…the US might try to use this as an excuse for lack of significant aid.
One man’s shortage is another man’s bounty.
Mockheed Lartin is loving this.
No they haven’t. This is propaganda 101. Do you REALLY think they’re advertising their actual supply and production capacity?
These types of lies were the backbone of the Russia strategy, let the Russians advance, deplete themselves while we ramp up our production, then they not only won’t be able to defend their gains but they’ll have to retreat.
All the while having provoked them so we can use Ukraine as a bulwark and voluntary cannon fodder. Wadn’t us, it’s them!
Don’t fall for it, these people are trained killers and do it for a living. They know what they’re doing and they’re running out of missiles like the US is running out of active shooters.
What do you think the goal of this propaganda would be? If it’s not true, and enemies of the US believe it is, that they attack isolated US bases on in other nations? To what benefit?
The scientists and experts in most things throughout most of the US government that had the spine and integrity to stand up to blatant bullshit, lies, and crimes were either fired or resigned. That includes high ranking military who would refuse illegal orders. What’s left is a mountain of the least capable and most corrupt willing to bend the knee and kiss the ass.
You genuinely think if Trump kept insisting on something this stupid they would refuse his orders? Or that Trump isn’t stupid enough to insist? Or that he takes heed to wise counsel?
No I think this is true. Some “defense industry” people play magic at my LGS and they’ve been talking about this obliquely.
Your friends are complicit in war crimes.
Literally never said they were my friends. But thanks for assuming my life and moralizing my choices.
So glad we’ve been spending billions building and stockpiling these things for my entire life, only to run out after [checks notes] six months of bullshit that accomplished nothing.
Turns out giving a low IQ pedo the keys to the kingdom isn’t such a great idea.
Really wish conservatives/regressives weren’t so painfully stupid/bigoted.
Time to buy Lockhead Martin and Raytheon stocks before they hand the resupply bill to the Dems after midterms! /s ?
Nah. Lockheed makes both the ATACMS and the PrSM.
Ooooo…a one stop shop!
What would conservatives/regressives be doing if they weren’t wasting all our money on things that don’t benefit Americans?
It’s almost like we should be voting for the other side that’s proven to be better regarding our tax dollars and economy as a whole. But I guess we could keep voting for the side that’s openly bigoted and really, really bad at managing money. You know, for the lols.
Being bigoted is a feature for the regressives.
It’s just exposing how the weapons belong to a dead end tech tree. The future of war is getting fragged by dollar store drones.
Honestly I don’t think that’s what we’re looking at. This is closer to what happened with machine guns and then later tanks during WW1 and WW2. What we’re looking at is a cavalry charge getting shredded by a machine gun and saying mobile warfare is dead, meanwhile the British and French are doing tank R&D.
This happens every couple of decades and lasts about a decade before proper counters can be developed, mind you it’s still busted as shit until said counters appear but still.
And accomplished sweet fuck all
They accomplished a lot:
- Throw a lifeline to Putin in the form of higher oil prices.
- Further undermine the international standing of the US.
- Make a complete mockery of whatever rules based order they’ve pretended to support.
- Encourage Xi to move against Taiwan.
The dismantling of the American empire is proceeding according to plan.
Except murdering children in their school. This fuckup should be attached to any title that involves Iran war.
Which was not an accident since they were “precision missiles”
This just means we will transition to cheaper less accurate ordinance, killing even more innocent civilians.
That jives with the underlying class war objectives.
And some idiot commenter a while back said the EU couldn’t survive war with the US… Dude, almost every backwater country survived and essentially hadn’t even lost… I’m sure the US would be unconquerable if anyone invaded them IF the had their shit together for sure. But they will never win wars again, and they are far more likely to kill themselves at this rate too. I believe WW3 would lead to the second civil war in the US. Hell I think the US going to get there with or without Russian and Chinese manipulation of their government at this rate.
Lol rice farmers held out against the U.S.
The billionaires need to pony up now so we can build more.
You know that’s not how this works
Source: Pete Kegseth keeps drunktexting reporters when he’s schlammered
This is what you get when you have an incompetent president whose only “strategy” is to use the military as an extension of his angry outbursts and an equally incompetent secretary of “war” who also believes the only thing necessary to solve the world’s problems is an army full of testosterone laden christian warriors let loose with full abandon. And if it diminishes America’s standing in the world or its ability to defend itself, all the better.
Weird. It’s almost like you just described traitors to the United States of America.
Becoming clear that the military industrial complex is actually a very badly diaguised kleptocracy, not that I like either option.
The Pentagon has never passed a budget audit. They had 8. This video explains is quite well. https://youtu.be/T9IV09cvXx4
Yeah, the one thing this Admin can’t hide at the end of the day is how much money has been evaporated between the war and whatever financial schemes they’ve enacted along the way. Hope the Repubs love paying for that
