Iran Super Thread- Merged

[FormerEnlisted]

The less-than-exquisite arsenal still counts. There's no rule or provision for confining the US to exquisite-systems-only in a confrontation.

And there is no reason to believe that our understanding of depletion is the same as the Pentagon's. They have always stockpiled enough material for a 2 front war. When people leak that inventories are down XX%, that doesn't refer to the entire arsenal, just the surplus inventory which has been allocated for immediate refurbishment and deployment since its reaching the end of its life cycle anyway.

There is a world of difference between 80% of total munitions, and 80% of munitions which were going to be written off in training exercises because they could no longer be warranted to mission specification.

The very reason that some devices malfunction and are captured intact is because they represent end of life models which were considered obsolete surplus anyway.

Anyone watching the current headless chicken dance in the middle east would be well advised to reflect on how high replenishment rates must have been for decades to sustain a major war in Ukraine and a new front in the levant, only using natural atrophy of current stockpiles.

 

[armrdsoul77]

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[Colin Parkinson]

And there is no reason to believe that our understanding of depletion is the same as the Pentagon's. They have always stockpiled enough material for a 2 front war. When people leak that inventories are down XX%, that doesn't refer to the entire arsenal, just the surplus inventory which has been allocated for immediate refurbishment and deployment since its reaching the end of its life cycle anyway.

There is a world of difference between 80% of total munitions, and 80% of munitions which were going to be written off in training exercises because they could no longer be warranted to mission specification.

The very reason that some devices malfunction and are captured intact is because they represent end of life models which were considered obsolete surplus anyway.

Anyone watching the current headless chicken dance in the middle east would be well advised to reflect on how high replenishment rates must have been for decades to sustain a major war in Ukraine and a new front in the levant, only using natural atrophy of current stockpiles.

Not to mention the west is getting a wakeup call on drone warfare and the need for a robust production chain. China is grappling with the reality that they have far fewer citizens than they thought they did, they see the human cost that is inflicted on Russia and worry they might not be able to afford to lose similar numbers of young males.