Comment on US shifting from precision munitions to 2,000-pound bombs in Iran war, Hegseth says

U7826391786239@piefed.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• thedeadwalking4242@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I honestly don’t believe the US could actually sustain a war. We have lots of fancy toys but no manufacturing capacity. They’d get take out sooner or later and can’t be replaced without exotic and hard to manufacturer parts.

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  • U7826391786239@piefed.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    don’t believe the US could actually sustain a war

    depends on what’s your definition of “war.” we were in afghanistan for 20+ years? but yea, keeping up like it’s going now…no chance. if iran manages to fuck up the oil supply for long enough, it would have a domino effect on the world’s ability to do anything, let alone do war

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    • thedeadwalking4242@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I mean ww3 or a war against a similarly sized country.

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      • U7826391786239@piefed.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        yea ww3 would basically be usa+israel vs everyone else, since we’ve managed to completely shit on all our allies any rinkydink tinpot dictatorship 3rd world countries that support trump would be more of a liability than an asset

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• superglue@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I might not mean they are running out, it probably means they’ve obtained air superiority so they are switching to cheaper munitions that slow bombers can carry.

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  • TommyCatkins@hexbear.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    The US have had air superiority everywhere except Kuwait. Iran had limited air defense systems and just a handful of operational F-14’s from the 70’s when the war broke out. The US just lacks the ability to use hundreds of $10,000,000 missiles a day for longer than a few weeks.

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  • hoch@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    This is the real reason

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