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You have no interceptors. You have no RARE EARTHS.
USA is fucked.
Modern technology is producing asymmetric advantages - a $7000 shahed drone can knock out the USS Gerald Ford.
Looking forward to a world where US imperialism is defeated and all nations can determine their destinies without Uncle Sams parasitic war crimes meddling.
We have God. We have infinite interceptors.
The war in Iran teaches an old lesson about military spending.
Six hundred years ago, on a muddy field near Agincourt in northern France, King Henry V’s outnumbered, half-starved English army faced the flower of French chivalry. French knights were expensive, each man-at-arms the product of many years of training, his armor and warhorse a major investment.
Henry’s archers carried longbows that cost little, drawn by men trained in every village across the kingdom. When the volleys came, the knights fell by the hundreds. Quantity overwhelmed quality—and the mud helped. France lost the battle, but defeat in the war came not in the dying. It was in the impossibility of replacing what had died.
Patriot interceptors are exquisite, a wonder of engineering, the product of decades of accumulated technical mastery, each one the labor of hundreds, perhaps thousands. The Iranian drones they intercept are arrows—cheap, plentiful, made in bulk.
Since February, the U.S. has fired more than 1,300 Patriot interceptors against Iranian missiles and drones. Each interceptor costs around $4 million to destroy weapons that cost between $20,000 and $50,000. Based on the most recent rate of production, it will take two years forLockheed Martinto replace what has been fired in the past 2½ months. That is the economics of defeat, and our adversaries understand it.
Each Patriot is also a creature of supply chains we don’t fully control. The U.S.-made guidance chips depend on helium, supplies of which have been disrupted by the war in Iran. Even if Congress voted the funds tomorrow for 10,000 new interceptors, the metal and the gas would still have to be found, the workforce trained, and the production lines tooled. We are running short of the raw materials for our exquisite weapons while our adversaries flood the battlefield with cheap drones.
Next-generation fighters, multibillion-dollar carriers and so much more mean that although each is a marvel, we have too few, and they’re too hard to replace, making them too valuable to risk.
Yeah the asymmetry is expensive. Our side has dozens dead and yours has thousands. But as of today, we can still afford to blow up the country, and we'll probably have to since they're refusing to surrender.
Why did you let this happen? No country wants to step up to defend Iran from US agression? I call that a win. That's a good start.
No you don't.
They don't have that ability. We have a more expensive military. It's just better. We have more allies than you think. We don't want to use up ammo. From a human standpoint and a cost perspective we prefer not to. Surrender and then we can talk. Stop resisting World Police.