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EarthFirst

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2. The DoD spent 98.4 billion on tactical and strategic missiles in FY '23

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Sat Mar 7, 2026, 05:17 AM

14 hrs ago

To quadruple that production would require a commitment of 393.6 billion.

https://www.war.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/3330612/emphasis-in-dod-2024-budget-includes-munitions/

This isn’t something that scales to this level overnight; or even years…this requires a Herculean effort of manufacturing infrastructure, skilled labor and increasingly difficult to source critical components.

They can agree to his crackpot demands; it doesn’t mean that they can easily meet those demands…

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Trump says defense contractors agree to quadruple production of 'exquisite class' weapons [View all] BumRushDaShow 14 hrs ago OP

Timeline? DRiggs 14 hrs ago #1

The DoD spent 98.4 billion on tactical and strategic missiles in FY '23 EarthFirst 14 hrs ago #2

Here's the problem Roy Rolling 13 hrs ago #3

Tomahawk Missile Production modrepub 11 hrs ago #4

They linked to another, more comprehensive article from earlier in the week where they had this (different reporter) - BumRushDaShow 10 hrs ago #9

Miliatry used over 100 Tomahawks a DAY according Deminpenn 9 hrs ago #10

So How Many Parts Are Common modrepub 9 hrs ago #13

What a waste- starve your own people for war. Blues Heron 11 hrs ago #5

Quickest way to bankrupt the country... Hope22 3 hrs ago #22

The rapist said Whip-poor-will 11 hrs ago #6

Days have been increased to a 32 hour Trump Day to accommodate the additional shift. Hugin 11 hrs ago #8

A huddle in two months? Hugin 11 hrs ago #7

No BIG, BEAUTIFUL, Trump Class Battleships then? ProudMNDemocrat 9 hrs ago #11

Well... Maybe one. Hugin 9 hrs ago #14

This makes me want to throw up! Hope22 3 hrs ago #23

As Country Joe said Doc_Technical 9 hrs ago #12

The Military Industrial Complex is loving this shit. BradBo 8 hrs ago #15

I couldn't get past "exquisite class" weapons. Is there actually such niyad 6 hrs ago #16

Must be gold plated rockets. Linda ladeewolf 5 hrs ago #17

It's just below the euphoria class... Hugin 5 hrs ago #18

Only in Trump's fevered imagination caraher 2 hrs ago #24

US troops in Iran racing against the clock before running out of ammo: report LetMyPeopleVote 4 hrs ago #19

Of course they "agreed". That's how you handle a madman with a gun in his hands. As others have mentioned, artemisia1 4 hrs ago #20

How does he plan on paying for this new production? Grins 4 hrs ago #21