We keep firing off multi-million dollar missiles to knock down $20k drones. Iran’s drones can be made in weeks, the missiles take months or more.
It can take up to 2 years to build a Tomahawk, costing $3.6 million a piece, according to the report. Moreover, last year’s budget had included only 57 of them.
The US army has fired over 850 Tomahawk missiles in four weeks during its war with Iran. Only a few hundred Tomahawk missiles are manufactured every year, and the rate of firing has alarmed some Pentagon officials who are in talks about how to make more of the missiles available, The Washington Post reported.
It can take up to 2 years to build a Tomahawk, costing $3.6 million a piece, according to the report. Moreover, last year’s budget had included only 57 of them.
An official said that the number of Tomahawk missiles in the Middle East is “alarmingly low”, another said that if there is no intervention, the country could run out of the missiles in the region soon.
Some Pentagon officials are concerned about the “alarmingly low” supply of Tomahawk missiles remaining in the U.S. military’s arsenal after firing 850 of the weapons into Iran, according to a report.
The rate at which the U.S. military has used the Tomahawk missiles in President Donald Trump’s war in Iran, now in its fourth week, has prompted internal talks about increasing supplies, according to The Washington Post.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/us-fired-850-tomahawk-missiles-130313690.html