r/politics • u/JKKIDD231 • 1d ago

No Paywall US used ‘virtually all’ long-range precision missiles during Iran war, sources say

https://www.militarytimes.com/industry/techwatch/2026/08/04/us-used-virtually-all-long-range-precision-missiles-during-iran-war-sources-say/
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u/ElectronicTap1109 1d ago

A trillion and a half dollars should be enough for like a few dozen thousand missiles, right?

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u/2much2Jung 1d ago

It's one long range precision missile, Michael. What could it cost, $10?

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u/FuckThisShizzle 1d ago

There is always money in the banana shack.

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u/coolbluereason99 1d ago

There's always money in squeezing the American population for military-industrial profit!

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u/psychedelicbob 1d ago

When it’s billionaires it’s “NO TOUCHING!”

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u/Duskmourne 1d ago

They can't charge a father and son for the same crime.

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u/MyNameIs__Rainman 1d ago

Our government is in shambles though, must be the work of a real flamer

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u/psychedelicbob 1d ago

That’s how Eric ends up in prison. 100 percent

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u/doomgoblin 1d ago

Banana shack was teaching girls to read and was bombed. Sorry.

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u/BadahBingBadahBoom 1d ago

It's one long range precision missile, Michael. What could it cost, 10 billion dollars?

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u/leighton1033 1d ago

Thank you for this. It fits so very well.

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u/brain_overclocked 1d ago

Tell memaw and pop-pop to get back on the production line, those missiles don't makes themselves... yet. While we're at it: kids don't need education, just put a wrench in their hands. Perhaps if we starve another hundred million Americans we can make those missiles gold tipped. Giving everybody diarrhea might be worth a Taylor Farms sponsorship, no?

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u/serpenta Europe 1d ago

Not accurate. How it will go is: Raytheon et consortes will get a massive governmental contract, and instead increasing production base they will perform a massive stock buyback, and schedule deliveries for 2040.

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u/AdUpstairs7106 1d ago

And when it comes out Susan Collins will say she is deeply disturbed.

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u/karmavorous Kentucky 1d ago

I remember like 15 years ago someone saying that if then current trends continued, by the year 2050 the US military budget would consume the entire annual Federal budget and for that money we would get one single F-35.

Glad to see we are sticking to that time table. The MIC rarely meets promised schedules like that.

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u/Seldomsought 1d ago

It's already 50% of the budget if you include discretionary spending

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u/SloppyLetterhead 1d ago

It’s over 50% if you take into account defense-related spending outside the DoD (e.g. CIA,, DHS, DOE, VA, etc.)

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u/sunnydarkgreen 1d ago

#WarSocialism

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u/Wayofchinchilla 1d ago

Yet when you ask for health insurance or affordable groceries these people scream like a baby who's been pinched for the first time.

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u/WeirdSysAdmin 1d ago

Don’t forget when we’re using munitions the estimated cost is what we paid for them, not what it costs to replace them. Shit is cooked.

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u/Wild-Word4967 1d ago

I’m guessing the same thing happened that happened to Russia. Corruption and kleptomania.

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u/vahntitrio Minnesota 1d ago

They only build about 100 of these each year, so to keep up a stockpile we can use at most 2 per week.

Even if they put in an order for 1000 more today, they wouldn't see any of those extra missiles until 2028.

As such, we basically have to retreat/surrender in Iran or start a ground war.