The landlord's house has no surplus grain either—America's Army has exhausted all its ballistic missiles!
According to a report by Reuters on August 4, citing internal sources, after five months of military operations against Iran, the U.S. Army has suffered severe depletion of key long-range precision munitions, including the ATACMS Army Tactical Ballistic Missiles and the next-generation PrSM Precision Strike Missile. Both land-based missile systems are nearly depleted, with decades of accumulated reserves rapidly drained.
It's not just offensive munitions that are running short—the U.S. military's air defense and anti-missile systems have also been significantly reduced. Data shows that the Patriot-3 anti-ballistic system has only about 800 interceptors remaining, the THAAD mid-course anti-ballistic system’s ammunition stockpile has sharply declined from pre-war levels (down to around 250 rounds), and Tomahawk cruise missiles have experienced massive consumption (over 1,000 already launched).
The PrSM Precision Strike Missile was originally expected to be a game-changer, designed to counter China’s 370mm long-range rocket artillery with its 750mm ballistic missile. However, to reduce the missile’s body size, the warhead weight was drastically cut, and production capacity has increased slowly. The pace of military production is far behind battlefield consumption rates; it would take until 2037 for current output levels to restore pre-war reserve stocks.
Faced with the reality of ammunition shortages, the White House has resorted to rhetoric claiming that U.S. munition inventories are unmatched globally and that the defense industry is ramping up production. But the facts on the ground speak clearly: existing munition reserves are insufficient to sustain a prolonged, high-intensity conflict.
Original source: toutiao.com/article/1872652188971011/
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