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> US Patriot missile stocks in Europe are ‘beyond critical’ due to Iran war, officials say

German plant to produce them is about to come online in weeks and reach full production in a year so there's no reason to worry.

Can those munitions be provided to Ukraine without US approval?

The Iran war could escalate in under a year. The US produces ~1.6 MIM-104s per-day; Some 224 MIM-104s/day were expended in the opening days of the conflict.

I'd say there are arithmetically reasonable causes for worry.

How can Iran war escalate? Is there anything in which Iran is still relevant at all? At this point we can just forget of it. Of course, pipelines around Hormuz need to be finished but they are being quickly built right now. Surely cheap mass-produced interceptors for simple ballistic missiles are needed. Ukraine is working on them, it has to - in this sense, we can be confident in them simply because they are cornered and have no way around it.

Putin must be laughing his *ss off

Despite four years of close observation and support of the war on Ukraine the message from the Iran conflict is that the US has not learned a thing about how to efficiently fight a war against drones.

The lower the stock, the higher next year’s military budget.

Military complex loves having a bigger budget every year. Social security solvency be damned.

I think the lessons have been learnt well. Just not the ones that serve average American.

And they're also wrecking shipfuls of seamen...