The US fired 850 Tomahawk missiles in 30 days but buys only 57 a year. As munitions run dry, the Pentagon pivots to ground troops in Iran, guaranteeing the Strait of Hormuz stays closed, European gas storage hits crisis levels, and Western energy prices keep climbing.
Is it really 14 years worth of missiles if you use them in 30 days in an actual war? Surely you measure your ‘days’ worth of missiles based on expected usage in scenarios where you actually have to use them? So in reality, they used 30 days worth of missiles in 30 days, they just massively underestimated how many missiles they’d need in those 30 days.
I’d say it depends on if you’re using the missiles effectively.
Targeting elementary schools because the hallucination machine you decided to give command and control authorization told you to, is not effective use.
The US fired 850+ Tomahawk cruise missiles in 30 days but purchased only 57 in the FY2026 budget. That is 14.9 years of production consumed in a single month.
Is it really 14 years worth of missiles if you use them in 30 days in an actual war? Surely you measure your ‘days’ worth of missiles based on expected usage in scenarios where you actually have to use them? So in reality, they used 30 days worth of missiles in 30 days, they just massively underestimated how many missiles they’d need in those 30 days.
I’d say it depends on if you’re using the missiles effectively.
Targeting elementary schools because the hallucination machine you decided to give command and control authorization told you to, is not effective use.