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Running out of Ordnance
« on: May 31, 2016, 09:55:40 PM »
Found this interesting.

Air Force Bombing Outpaces Production Of Precision Weapons, Raiding Global Stockpiles
Defense Daily    05/27/2016
Author: Dan Parsons
 
 
The U.S. military is firing missiles and dropping bombs on Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria at a higher rate than it had planned to produce them, forcing commanders to reach into reserve weapon stocks to continue the fight, according to the Middle East Air Force chief.
Defense Secretary Ashton Carter has publicly expressed concern that stocks of precision weapons like the AGM-114 Hellfire Missiles made by Lockheed Martin [LMT] and Boeing