by naturalnews
As war rages on multiple fronts, the Pentagon, where most of the world’s wars originate, is struggling to keep the weapons flowing to its allies in Ukraine and Israel.
According to reports, the Pentagon is running low on certain types of air-defense missiles, which some say points to more serious problems for the Western regime as it struggles to maintain its stranglehold on the world.
As the situation in the Middle East specifically escalates, the most sought-after ordnance, interceptors, are in short supply. Israel needs interceptors to continue flowing so it can expand and achieve “Greater Israel,” but the United States is having trouble keeping up with their production.
In the meantime, Iran, Russia, and other nations on the other side of the fight are building up their reserves with haste. Tehran is expected to retaliate for Israel’s latest airstrikes, and once that happens, Israel could find itself without the weapons it needs to continue its crusade.
“Standard Missiles, which are usually ship-launched and come in various types, are among the most common interceptors the U.S. has used to defend Israeli territory from Iranian missile attacks, and are critical for stopping Houthi attacks on Western ships in the Red Sea,” reports explain.
“The U.S. has launched more than 100 Standard Missiles since Hamas’s October 2023 attack on Israel,” the U.S. officials said.
(Related: Earlier this year, the Pentagon completely ran out of spare “Patriot” missiles to send to Ukraine, suggesting that Russia is winning.)
DoD trying to keep secret its dwindling weapons supplies
Even though the cat is already out of the bag, the Department of Defense (DoD) is now trying to play dumb about its lack of weaponry. A spokesperson said the DoD does not publicly disclose its stockpiles because doing so could empower Iran and “its proxies” to take action.
“Over the course of the last year, the Department of Defense has augmented our force posture in the region to protect U.S. forces and support the defense of Israel, while always taking into account U.S. readiness and stockpiles,” Pentagon spokeswoman Sabrina Singh is quoted as saying.
The fact that Israel needs so many missile interceptors so often in order to maintain its presence and agenda in the Middle East is worrying some of the warmongers who fear the U.S. military machine will be unable to keep up with producing enough of them moving forwards.
“The U.S. has not developed a defense industrial base intended for a large-scale war of attrition in both Europe and the Middle East, while meeting its own readiness standards,” complained Elias Yousif, a fellow and deputy director of the Conventional Defense Program at the Stimson Center in Washington.
“And both of those wars are extended conflicts, which was not part of the U.S. defense planning.”
While the Pentagon would like for nothing more than to rapidly expand its weapons production capabilities, the fact of the matter is that American companies are reluctant to invest in the capacity needed to do this as the Pentagon is not offering any kind of purchasing commitment over the longer term, probably because it knows the economies of the U.S. and other Western powers are on the brink of collapse.
“The more sophisticated the missile, the harder it is to produce them,” said Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro to lawmakers back in May while pressing Congress and the defense industry to increase production for Standard Missiles because so many of them have now been used by Israel.
Earlier this month, the Pentagon deployed the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, also known as THAAD, to Israel. This deployment of THAAD will allow the U.S. to use interceptors other than Standard Missiles to help boost Israel’s defenses.
More related news about the ongoing demise of the West can be found at Collapse.news.
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