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cross-posted from: https://lemdro.id/post/47540327

We’re gonna look very weak to China and Russia
Yes and this is not by accident.
It’s the end result that counts! The invasion and destruction of Iran was a terrific success, congrats to the White House, president Trump, vice president Vance, the GOP and Hegseth… and the US Americans: for making the world a safer place!!! 🇺🇸🏈🌎🇺🇸 And that little fellow Rubio.
I can’t tell if this is sarcasm and I don’t like that.
Poe’s law is an adage of Internet culture which says that, without a clear indicator of the author’s intent, any parodic or sarcastic expression of extreme views can be mistaken by some readers for a sincere expression of those views.
This sums up a large part of what passes as political discourse online these days. Especially on a platform like this where people have no skin in the game about the utterances they’re spewing out.
This graph insinuates that all these missiles were stockpiled since 2001.
Purple line legend explains
What happened on 2019 that made them ramp up production?
In 2020, production of the PAC-3 Configuration 3 was discontinued, and only the PAC-3 MSE is now being produced. With the introduction of the PAC-3 MSE, the PAC-3 variant was renamed PAC-3 CRI. CRI stands for Cost Reduction Initiative.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIM-104_Patriot
So basically the capacity gained by the discontinuation of the production of the PAC-3 (PAC-3 CRI) was used to ramp up the production of the PAC-3 MSE.



