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U.S. used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war

319 pointsby tcp_handshakertoday at 10:59 AM531 commentsview on HN

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redwoodtoday at 11:31 AM

The article is about the Army (not the Navy or Air Force for example)

redwoodtoday at 11:27 AM

This is already the lifeline Europe is using to save its auto industry from the electric... the US is next. Just need to open up competitive bidding for the production of these components. Licensing patriot production to Ukraine will be a good start... S. Korea next

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josefritzisheretoday at 2:25 PM

It's almost like the current decision makers are incompetent.

shevy-javatoday at 11:40 AM

Trump is like Al Capone - just dumber.

There is not really any strategy here in place that makes sense from an US point of view. There is a strategy in place that may make sense for Netanyahu (e. g. remain in power) but this is not a US strategic point of view. Trump seems to be the most easily influenced roleplaying as "president". People need to follow the money trail here - that would explain the whole situation right now best.

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lifestylegurutoday at 11:30 AM

Americans living in their bubble might be unable to see from a perspective, but from outside is quite apparent that American-Israeli conflict against Iran will long outlive both Trump and Netanjahu. Hopefully that was the last dumb thing and decision they made.

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mnmnmntoday at 7:32 PM

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therealdkztoday at 7:19 PM

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Madmallardtoday at 11:39 AM

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hereme888today at 7:51 PM

Typical CNBC article. Lying as usual.

Only PrSM and ATACMS reserves are low.

_menelaustoday at 12:34 PM

This is good for Anduril. The future of war is cheap, massed, intelligent drones. Its strategically fortunate for us to burn through all of this expensive, obsolete crap.

embedding-shapetoday at 11:21 AM

I like how China and Russia are mentioned as adversaries that the US might be less likely to deter with their dwindling supply of long-range munition, but the country that so helpfully "received" (being bombed) all that supply and is the reason for the stockpile being minimal right now, isn't mentioned as an adversary that could take advantage of this.

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hunterpaynetoday at 7:25 PM

The US only used long range precision missiles for the first 3 days of the war. Since then, its been almost all JDAMs. The interceptors got used a lot more but even with those we only went through about 5% of the stockpile. This is CNBC. If you trust them on topics like this, well...that's on you. Please remember that they don't have a single person on staff with any military experience or expertise.

PS Their source was probably the IRCG...

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