This document is over two years old and with the break neck pace the US has been undergoing this isn't going to be that accurate..... Not only has a lot of progress been made but a ton of Chinese entities have been barred from the supply chain meaning we have found alternatives.
US semi manufacturing alone has blown up since Jan. 1, 2024 as the plants in Arizona and Texas have come online.
Efficiency matters...in war and peace. USA is using a dozen $10 million dollar interceptors to destroy a single $10,000 Iranian drone. You are running out of Tomahawks. You are running out of everything...including time. Next month Trump will agree to a timetable for the peaceful handover of Taiwan.
No we arent. THAD and Patriot only are used on missiles. THAD cant even hit a drone if it wanted to and Patriot its debatable. Israel where we see the huge expenditure are downing.... missiles not drones.
We are using helicopters even to down the drones so no you are just flat out wrong.
'The Shahed drone shows the paradox of modern warfare. Aircraft carriers, F-35 fighter jets and other big-ticket weapons systems deliver crushing military force. But they come in small numbers at eye-watering costs. The Tomahawk cruise missiles the U.S. fired at Iran cost $2.5 million apiece. A Shahed drone costs Iran less than $50,000. The Iranian drone isn’t as powerful, but a country can build 50 of them for the price of a single Tomahawk. And shooting them down uses up limited stocks of defensive missiles. That asymmetry can give a smaller country an edge over what might appear to be an overwhelming military force.' WSJ https://www.wsj.com/opinion/free-expression/drones-are-the-future-of-warfare-3f49de93
A Tomahawk is a land attack weapon..... what are you even getting at? Are you trying to say that we are using one Tomahawk for one drone? Cause that also is not the case. The Tomahawks (which they have released video of) are hitting hardened targets, storage places of multiple drones, or production facilities. We are using one way attack drones for the individual drones or MQ-9 Reaper's that fire Hellfires.... this is clearly presented in evidence so I have no idea why you think we are launching a Tomahawk against a single drone because we arent.
Its also why with this type of warfare the quadcopters do not have a roll because there are no ground troops and the US has nothing near Iran to be able to hit them. They could attempt to down things with quad copers but we have seen in Ukraine how hard that is and thats why Ukraine made interceptor drones.
'Beyond gas prices, Trump also faces the challenge of how to quickly refill shrinking military stockpiles. The Trump administration is expected to ask Congress to provide more money to help pay for the costs associated with the war, including the purchase of Patriot, Tomahawk and Thaad antimissile systems, which have been in heavy use since Israel and the U.S. began their strikes.
But such defensive equipment, along with munitions, can’t be manufactured quickly—even though Trump has been trying to browbeat defense contractors into ramping up production.
“Hopefully, we had our eye on the ball on this before we went into this conflict,” Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R., Ala.) told reporters last week. “It takes years to build these things—not days, not weeks, but years,” he said, referring to the Thaad antiballistic-missile systems, which are made in Alabama.'
You know we began ramping up production a couple of years ago and now that production is coming online. The US employes a layered defense system allowing for certain areas to run to zero and there still be coverage. Redundancy is amazing.
Oh and dont forget about the Navy's HELIOS that is silently in operation in during this conflict. For a whooping couple of dollars..... Who else has that type of weaponry operational? Well Israel does have Iron Beam but who has them on boats.... shooting down targets or well these targets randomly getting destroyed I should say without munitions fired at them....
Yes China won the trade war and so USA tries to retain hegemony with brute force military aggression. What a poor loser Trump and USA are. Trump is a war criminal leading an empire in chronic moral, economic and military decline. Trumps invasion of Iran is just as much a war crime as Russia invasion of Ukraine. The USA has lost any moral high ground if it ever had any.
US and Israel are running out of defensive missiles. The end of empire is dawning. 'Hand over Taiwan' will be the demand from China next month- Trump will look like the war criminal clown that he is. US military industrial complex is broken.
Thats.... thats just plan not true and you can do the math with the payloads the US sent to the Middle East. Plus factor in the dramatic drop off in Iran and that people are just moving to C RAMs instead. The only things starting to get through are the attacks on civilian infrastructure that the US didnt place coverage at because it wasnt well a US base. Things that have gotten through have no affected operations at all while Iran has no navy and no air force.
China has purged all of their capable generals they have a hollow leadership. Xi Jinping has no military experience so the idea he is able to even threaten or wage a war is hilarious.
'Beyond gas prices, Trump also faces the challenge of how to quickly refill shrinking military stockpiles. The Trump administration is expected to ask Congress to provide more money to help pay for the costs associated with the war, including the purchase of Patriot, Tomahawk and Thaad antimissile systems, which have been in heavy use since Israel and the U.S. began their strikes. But such defensive equipment, along with munitions, can’t be manufactured quickly—even though Trump has been trying to browbeat defense contractors into ramping up production. “Hopefully, we had our eye on the ball on this before we went into this conflict,” Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R., Ala.) told reporters last week. “It takes years to build these things—not days, not weeks, but years,” he said, referring to the Thaad antiballistic-missile systems, which are made in Alabama.'
Govini is a U.S.-based defense technology company that develops software to transform the defense acquisition process into a strategic advantage. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, Govini provides a data science and analytics platform called Ark, which integrates commercial and government data using AI and a proprietary National Security Knowledge Graph. The platform supports teams across supply chain, science and technology, production, sustainment, logistics, and modernization to accelerate acquisition decisions.
The company is a "unicorn" with a valuation exceeding $1 billion, having raised $174 million in funding from investors including Bain Capital, Accel, Salesforce Ventures, and STG Partners. Govini serves every department of the U.S. military and federal agencies, and its software is a key component in major programs like the U.S. Army's Next Generation Command and Control (NGC2).
In October 2025, Govini announced it had surpassed $100 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR), marking a major milestone. The company has offices in Arlington, Virginia, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and San Francisco, California.
Tara Murphy Dougherty is the current CEO, having taken over leadership following the 2025 arrest of founder Eric Gillespie, who was charged with soliciting a pre-teen for sexual contact in a federal sting operation. The company placed Gillespie on administrative leave and confirmed it is fully cooperating with law enforcement.
'Iran’s stockpiles of short- and medium-range missiles, as well as swarms of explosive Shahed drones and cyber and electronic-warfare capabilities, pose a formidable threat to U.S. military bases in the region, said Ravi Chaudhary, a former assistant secretary of the Air Force in charge of installations.
“U.S. installations are going to be tested like never before in this particular conflict,” he said. “Our adversaries have demonstrated the intent and capability to go after our critical infrastructure to disrupt the ability of the United States to project air power.”
That challenge is mounting as Iran is widening its campaign of missile and drone strikes to include infrastructure that pumps much of the world’s oil and gas supply. An Iranian drone attack set fire to an important Saudi oil hub while Iranian strikes forced a halt to production of liquefied natural gas in Qatar, one of the world’s largest exporters.'
do you have a source for this graph so that we can get some context?
https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/65e61e6392aba0fa1dba723e/66104c1d4e3ae7809bcd8082_Govini_2024_Numbers-Matter.pdf
Thank you!
Now deal with it!
This document is over two years old and with the break neck pace the US has been undergoing this isn't going to be that accurate..... Not only has a lot of progress been made but a ton of Chinese entities have been barred from the supply chain meaning we have found alternatives.
US semi manufacturing alone has blown up since Jan. 1, 2024 as the plants in Arizona and Texas have come online.
Efficiency matters...in war and peace.
USA is using a dozen $10 million dollar interceptors to destroy a single $10,000 Iranian drone.
You are running out of Tomahawks.
You are running out of everything...including time.
Next month Trump will agree to a timetable for the peaceful handover of Taiwan.
No we arent. THAD and Patriot only are used on missiles. THAD cant even hit a drone if it wanted to and Patriot its debatable. Israel where we see the huge expenditure are downing.... missiles not drones.
We are using helicopters even to down the drones so no you are just flat out wrong.
'The Shahed drone shows the paradox of modern warfare. Aircraft carriers, F-35 fighter jets and other big-ticket weapons systems deliver crushing military force. But they come in small numbers at eye-watering costs. The Tomahawk cruise missiles the U.S. fired at Iran cost $2.5 million apiece. A Shahed drone costs Iran less than $50,000. The Iranian drone isn’t as powerful, but a country can build 50 of them for the price of a single Tomahawk. And shooting them down uses up limited stocks of defensive missiles. That asymmetry can give a smaller country an edge over what might appear to be an overwhelming military force.'
WSJ
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/free-expression/drones-are-the-future-of-warfare-3f49de93
A Tomahawk is a land attack weapon..... what are you even getting at? Are you trying to say that we are using one Tomahawk for one drone? Cause that also is not the case. The Tomahawks (which they have released video of) are hitting hardened targets, storage places of multiple drones, or production facilities. We are using one way attack drones for the individual drones or MQ-9 Reaper's that fire Hellfires.... this is clearly presented in evidence so I have no idea why you think we are launching a Tomahawk against a single drone because we arent.
Its also why with this type of warfare the quadcopters do not have a roll because there are no ground troops and the US has nothing near Iran to be able to hit them. They could attempt to down things with quad copers but we have seen in Ukraine how hard that is and thats why Ukraine made interceptor drones.
'Beyond gas prices, Trump also faces the challenge of how to quickly refill shrinking military stockpiles. The Trump administration is expected to ask Congress to provide more money to help pay for the costs associated with the war, including the purchase of Patriot, Tomahawk and Thaad antimissile systems, which have been in heavy use since Israel and the U.S. began their strikes.
But such defensive equipment, along with munitions, can’t be manufactured quickly—even though Trump has been trying to browbeat defense contractors into ramping up production.
“Hopefully, we had our eye on the ball on this before we went into this conflict,” Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R., Ala.) told reporters last week. “It takes years to build these things—not days, not weeks, but years,” he said, referring to the Thaad antiballistic-missile systems, which are made in Alabama.'
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-comes-under-pressure-to-address-gas-prices-iran-war-strategy-85ebd616
You know we began ramping up production a couple of years ago and now that production is coming online. The US employes a layered defense system allowing for certain areas to run to zero and there still be coverage. Redundancy is amazing.
Oh and dont forget about the Navy's HELIOS that is silently in operation in during this conflict. For a whooping couple of dollars..... Who else has that type of weaponry operational? Well Israel does have Iron Beam but who has them on boats.... shooting down targets or well these targets randomly getting destroyed I should say without munitions fired at them....
Yes China won the trade war and so USA tries to retain hegemony with brute force military aggression.
What a poor loser Trump and USA are.
Trump is a war criminal leading an empire in chronic moral, economic and military decline.
Trumps invasion of Iran is just as much a war crime as Russia invasion of Ukraine.
The USA has lost any moral high ground if it ever had any.
US and Israel are running out of defensive missiles.
The end of empire is dawning.
'Hand over Taiwan' will be the demand from China next month- Trump will look like the war criminal clown that he is.
US military industrial complex is broken.
Thats.... thats just plan not true and you can do the math with the payloads the US sent to the Middle East. Plus factor in the dramatic drop off in Iran and that people are just moving to C RAMs instead. The only things starting to get through are the attacks on civilian infrastructure that the US didnt place coverage at because it wasnt well a US base. Things that have gotten through have no affected operations at all while Iran has no navy and no air force.
China has purged all of their capable generals they have a hollow leadership. Xi Jinping has no military experience so the idea he is able to even threaten or wage a war is hilarious.
'Beyond gas prices, Trump also faces the challenge of how to quickly refill shrinking military stockpiles. The Trump administration is expected to ask Congress to provide more money to help pay for the costs associated with the war, including the purchase of Patriot, Tomahawk and Thaad antimissile systems, which have been in heavy use since Israel and the U.S. began their strikes.
But such defensive equipment, along with munitions, can’t be manufactured quickly—even though Trump has been trying to browbeat defense contractors into ramping up production.
“Hopefully, we had our eye on the ball on this before we went into this conflict,” Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R., Ala.) told reporters last week. “It takes years to build these things—not days, not weeks, but years,” he said, referring to the Thaad antiballistic-missile systems, which are made in Alabama.'
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-comes-under-pressure-to-address-gas-prices-iran-war-strategy-85ebd616
I asked Brave about Govini:
Who is Govini
Govini is a U.S.-based defense technology company that develops software to transform the defense acquisition process into a strategic advantage. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, Govini provides a data science and analytics platform called Ark, which integrates commercial and government data using AI and a proprietary National Security Knowledge Graph. The platform supports teams across supply chain, science and technology, production, sustainment, logistics, and modernization to accelerate acquisition decisions.
The company is a "unicorn" with a valuation exceeding $1 billion, having raised $174 million in funding from investors including Bain Capital, Accel, Salesforce Ventures, and STG Partners. Govini serves every department of the U.S. military and federal agencies, and its software is a key component in major programs like the U.S. Army's Next Generation Command and Control (NGC2).
In October 2025, Govini announced it had surpassed $100 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR), marking a major milestone. The company has offices in Arlington, Virginia, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and San Francisco, California.
Tara Murphy Dougherty is the current CEO, having taken over leadership following the 2025 arrest of founder Eric Gillespie, who was charged with soliciting a pre-teen for sexual contact in a federal sting operation. The company placed Gillespie on administrative leave and confirmed it is fully cooperating with law enforcement.
Oh god….. I guess that’s why the info is so old…. Company has been busy with other things in the meantime time 😵💫
'Iran’s stockpiles of short- and medium-range missiles, as well as swarms of explosive Shahed drones and cyber and electronic-warfare capabilities, pose a formidable threat to U.S. military bases in the region, said Ravi Chaudhary, a former assistant secretary of the Air Force in charge of installations.
“U.S. installations are going to be tested like never before in this particular conflict,” he said. “Our adversaries have demonstrated the intent and capability to go after our critical infrastructure to disrupt the ability of the United States to project air power.”
That challenge is mounting as Iran is widening its campaign of missile and drone strikes to include infrastructure that pumps much of the world’s oil and gas supply. An Iranian drone attack set fire to an important Saudi oil hub while Iranian strikes forced a halt to production of liquefied natural gas in Qatar, one of the world’s largest exporters.'
WSJ
https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/iranian-drones-and-missiles-challenge-stretched-u-s-forces-9e41df9a
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