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>Four hundred and twenty-five. That's how many serviceable JASSM-ER cruise missiles the United States has left on the entire planet. Bloomberg reported April 4 that the Pentagon ordered a majority of its Pacific stockpiles pulled east and committed to the Iran war. Before February 28, the US had 2,300 JASSM-ERs globally. It has now fired over 1,000 and committed most of the rest to CENTCOM bases and RAF Fairford in the UK. The 425 that remain could arm 17 B-1B bombers for a single sortie. One sortie. Then they're gone. We've been tracking the munitions math since Day 6 of this war, when a Pentagon official admitted "we have shot several years' worth of production in the last few days." That was about interceptors. The offensive side of the ledger is worse.

Archive: https://archive.today/LZlgb From the post: >>Four hundred and twenty-five. That's how many serviceable JASSM-ER cruise missiles the United States has left on the entire planet. Bloomberg reported April 4 that the Pentagon ordered a majority of its Pacific stockpiles pulled east and committed to the Iran war. Before February 28, the US had 2,300 JASSM-ERs globally. It has now fired over 1,000 and committed most of the rest to CENTCOM bases and RAF Fairford in the UK. The 425 that remain could arm 17 B-1B bombers for a single sortie. One sortie. Then they're gone. We've been tracking the munitions math since Day 6 of this war, when a Pentagon official admitted "we have shot several years' worth of production in the last few days." That was about interceptors. The offensive side of the ledger is worse.
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Peace time production numbers are not equal to war time production though.

In past wars women ("home makers") went to work building muntions and other military equipment as it became more of a necessity. Defense companies are already working to scale up production massively to meet the sudden demand.

Obviously it will take more time to spin up production of more advanced muntions but it will happen as Washington starts handing out the cash.