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[-] [email protected] 49 points 10 months ago

Does 'hand to mouth' mean it's being sent away and used as soon as it's produced?

[-] [email protected] 42 points 10 months ago

Yup, exactly. Producing just enough to meet your current needs.

[-] [email protected] 37 points 10 months ago

or, they're using them up as fast as they can be produced.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Yep, that's a more accurate way of putting it. @[email protected]'s phrasing made it sound like some well-organized kanban thing. 🤣

[-] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

Russian cruise missiles were used in combat sometimes just weeks after rolling off the factory floor.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

Yes, that's exactly it. Their most advanced weaponry is being made and used instantly, as opposed to being drawn down from older stockpiles. This is suggestive that those initial stockplies are gone, and that they're having to use things as fast as they can make them.

It paints a picture that they are struggling to keep up, that they're not capable of further quick escalation, and that they'd be very sensitive to a disruption in the delivery of components required to make these things when they're using them as fast as they can build them.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

This also makes them vulnerable if there is any disruption in the supply chain.

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