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Subject: Munitions Replenishment
Phoenix Rising    3/10/2002 7:13:13 AM
Does anyone have any idea how long it will take to replace the stockpiles of JDAM's, Tomahawks, etc., both in terms of the shortfall from when Bush took office and the rapid depletion of them in Afghanistan? Have we even ordered a full replenishment? Was that part of the Pentagon budget? How fast do we produce them?

Even a ballpark figure would be helpful ... weeks? Months? A year? The rest of GW's term? More?

--Phoenix Rising
 
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Texman    RE:Munitions Replenishment   3/12/2002 10:54:38 PM
we had 10,000 JDAMS before the war in Afghanistan, we have used 4,700 in the war. We are ramping up production to 2,000 a month. Were getting short on tomahawks, about 2,900, but were starting limited production of the new improved tactical tomahawk.
 
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Merc    RE:Munitions Replenishment   5/19/2002 2:02:19 AM
Yah, JDAMs are no problems. The system is relatively simple-- The warhead is the standard Mark-80 series bombs and the guidance kits simply gets bolted onto them. These are cheap and can be replenished very quickly. Tomahawks are a bit more problematical. We are indeed getting short on them, but the good news is that there aren't very many heavily-defended targets in Afghanistan that fighters and bombers couldn't hit. The stockpile should be replenished by the time the next MRC breaks out.
 
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freedom    RE:Munitions Replenishment   5/31/2003 4:17:00 AM
i think we are supposed to have 3500 to 4000 in arsenal by FY 06. check out link
 
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Thomas    RE:Munitions Replenishment   6/2/2003 3:47:16 AM
With the industrial capacity of the USA, I'm not really worried - if things got bad the industry could shift into double overtime - it would cost - but what the hell.
 
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Phoenix Rising    RE:Munitions Replenishment   6/2/2003 12:11:00 PM
Thomas, True; if you look at the date, that question was more than a year old. I was asking what our current production rate at the time was; SP put a blog up about it a few days afterward. At the time it seemed like every Taliban vehicle had more JDAM's chasing it than a New York ambulance has lawyers, so I was wondering how close we were to running out and what it would mean if North Korea started doing something that demanded immediate attention (this was barely a month after the "Axis of Evil" SOTU). --Phoenix Rising
 
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Thomas    RE:Munitions Replenishment PH   6/3/2003 3:37:26 AM
Noted.
 
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StymiestxBlitz    RE:Munitions Replenishment PH   8/12/2003 3:06:38 PM
If North Korea stirred the pot we would switch to dumb bombs and carpet bomb their asses. In a war such as north korea I believe using smart weapons on a large scale such as iraq would be to costly.
 
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