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They're starting to look like a waste of money that we should not replenish.

Wait, how many of those do we have? I'd expect us to have at least 10,000 given how we are supposed to be the bastion of goddamn freedom. Can hardly claim to be the stalwart defender of democracy if we don't have enough ammo for at least a month.

And if we don't have ammo, maybe we shouldn't be starting wars with nations that have a military.

So, apparently there's a term that's used in the defence industry for advanced, extremely capable, very expensive weapons: "exquisite weapons". This sounds like something out of a fantasy RPG, but it's actually the term they use in the industry to talk about these things, the Tomahawk being one of them.

So, while Iran is hitting various sites around the middle east with machines that cost about the same as a small car and are built in a basic factory, the US is spending 100x as much, building missiles in special high-tech factories using clean rooms and high end robots. Not only that, but the weapons the US is using to intercept Iran's drones cost about 100x as much as the drones they're shooting down.

Jesus... How many schools did they have??

Per the Wikipedia article nuclear weapons of the United states:

The US holds in total 5,177 warheads, of which 3,700 are stockpiled, and 1,477 are awaiting dismantlement. Of the stockpile, 1,770 are deployed, while 1,930 are held in reserve.

Do we seriously have more nukes than tomahawks??? This reporting has to be incorrect.

This is like when a noob uses a cheat code at the beginning of the game and still loses

AI says these cost $1.3 million each on the low end.

That's at least another billion dollars wasted on Israel that could've been spent helping Americans.

Right… that’s the concern here… dwindling supplies.

Spend billons on more bombs while global economic collapse looms.

That really is the best opportunity for China to take Taiwan. Wait a little bit longer until stockpiles are empty and ground troops are deployed and then strike while the USA is occupied

Those could have been used against russia to defend Ukraine...

That’s what, 2.5 billion taxpayer dollars. For a war taxpayers don’t want.

Fuck Trump.

They bombed a bunker months ago, now there's a bunch of tomahawk missles deployed; Is The Dept. of War getting ideas from Top Gun: Maverick? /s

those are about 3 million each, in pre trump funds. Looks like tax paying Americans will all be emptying or wallets and cutting services to replace those now too. I hope Israel is happy with us and sends our politicians a tiny fraction of that amount in bribes.

Btw only 9000 tomahawk missiles have ever been produced in the 43 year lifespan of the tomahawk program, and at top speed we can produce 600 a year. We usually make up to 90 a year. We reportedly had between 3-4000 in our inventory.

They can just get ICE to loan them some.

Are they doing this so they have an excuse not to help Taiwan next year?

Once again, comedy gold for the Kremlin.

It’s so silly. Those were made to be used ‘surgically’: to hit specific high value targets at extended range while minimising collateral damage. If you feel the need to use 850 of them, you’ve chosen the wrong weapon system: at that point, you should be flying B52’s over whatever you want to hit. Or turn Tehran into a glass parking lot.

Yes, empty those stockpiles. Don't wowwy, nothing is going to happen, I pwomice

Gweetings, China.

No more missiles until you stop bombing little girls.