askchapo

I wouldn't be surprised if they switched to a hyper-aggressive, Korean War-style approach if their defensive weapons ran out.

Tell the American taxpayer we are winning the war. Then place an order for more.

No... no its not.

There definitely isn't enough time to build out the facilities to ramp up production. These aren't fin stabilized bombs. These are very technically advanced doohickies and require lots of specialized equipment, personnel, and facilities to manufacture.

Most of these munitions are going to require a network of radar installations to have any shot of functioning, everything from early warning to target acquisition. Having more munitions but them being blind... is a bit of a problem.

As munitions get low, the launchers are going to start showing signs of wear and tear, being damaged in attacks, or being outright destroyed. So having more fancy missiles stops being useful. Maybe its easier to build more launchers than the missiles but if the USA is balking at having more manufacturing capacity for the missiles why wouldn't this also apply to the launchers.

All the while, somebody has got to figure out how to get all the stuff from the USA or Europe to the Western Asia area to be installed in the countries who are being attacked by Iran and other resistance groups. With Iran and those other resistance groups being pretty open about why these USA aligned countries are being attacked, "Stop working with the USA/Israel, who are attacking us, and we will leave you alone." At some point, the math is going to work out for some countries where "Hey, the USA has already failed to protect us once when they had all sorts of fancy radar installations, launchers and munitions for the launchers... now that they are rushing to rebuild the radar sites, launchers and munitions... why not take those resistance groups up on their offer of "we'll stop the attacks when you stop letting the USA/Israel do {insert thing here} on your country's soil?"

Im eating all the guns and ammo and missilea mmmm yim yumny

I mean the long and short of it is we have no idea. We think the interceptors are running out. Movements of THAAD batteries from South Korea to West Asia seem to imply that. B52s strapped with cruise missiles are replacing a lot of Tomahawk strikes, which again implies they're running out of those missiles. It seems Iran launches fewer drones and missiles, but more get through, again implying lack of interceptors. But we really don't know what their stockpiles are, the fog of war is thick.

As for manufacturing, it's functionally impossible to scale up manufacturing in the United States in a way that would make any difference for this current war. It is possible that they do so after, realising it is a fool's errand to fight China without having any real weapons manufacturing base, especially when they depleted their stockpiles in this farcical "special military operation," but that would require rejecting the God of Short Term Profit. Unlikely that the current rulers of the USAmerican Empire would make such a choice.

Thr long term effects of this is worldwide rearmament. Users like @xiaohongshu@hexbear.net have been predicting this for a long while, and I think after this war it's even more likely. Countries within the empire are seeing the United States cannot protect them. They do not have the arms nor the will to do so. The obvious answer is you need to develop your own arms industry, your own defensive platforms, your own missiles, etc. The empire is always gonna prioritise Israel (look at Ukraine rn, or the Gulf, both of which, despite being more "important," are getting no arms).