US Patriot missile stocks in Europe are 'beyond critical' due to Iran war(apnews.com)
20 pointsby hn_ackera day ago5 comments
  • hn_ackera day ago
    The full title is:

    > US Patriot missile stocks in Europe are ‘beyond critical’ due to Iran war, officials say

  • electroweak19 hours ago
    Despite four years of close observation and support of the war on Ukraine the message from the Iran conflict is that the US has not learned a thing about how to efficiently fight a war against drones.
    • nojvek12 hours ago
      The lower the stock, the higher next year’s military budget.

      Military complex loves having a bigger budget every year. Social security solvency be damned.

      I think the lessons have been learnt well. Just not the ones that serve average American.

  • netsharc18 hours ago
    And they're also wrecking shipfuls of seamen...
  • anovikova day ago
    German plant to produce them is about to come online in weeks and reach full production in a year so there's no reason to worry.
    • bigyabaia day ago
      The Iran war could escalate in under a year. The US produces ~1.6 MIM-104s per-day; Some 224 MIM-104s/day were expended in the opening days of the conflict.

      I'd say there are arithmetically reasonable causes for worry.

      • anovikov9 hours ago
        How can Iran war escalate? Is there anything in which Iran is still relevant at all? At this point we can just forget of it. Of course, pipelines around Hormuz need to be finished but they are being quickly built right now. Surely cheap mass-produced interceptors for simple ballistic missiles are needed. Ukraine is working on them, it has to - in this sense, we can be confident in them simply because they are cornered and have no way around it.
    • toomuchtodoa day ago
      Can those munitions be provided to Ukraine without US approval?
  • ck2a day ago
    Putin must be laughing his *ss off