Secretary of War says decision comes as Iran’s air-defence has been destroyed, but report says US running low on precision munitions
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U7826391786239@piefed.zip 2 days ago
yesterday “we have unlimited ammo!!!”
today “we’re running out of shit”
LOL
obviously they’re lying, but also they’re fucking stupid
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.
U7826391786239@piefed.zip 2 days ago
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
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.
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.
hoch@lemmy.world 2 days ago
This is the real reason