By Kurt Nimmo
The Donald is bombing so many countries so often, he’s running of bombs.
“Critical munitions shortfalls are my top war-fighting concern,” says US Pacific commander Admiral Harry Harris. “We must maintain our capability to operate in contested environments.”
Priorities include long-range and stand-off strike weapons, anti-ship weapons, advanced air to air munitions, theatre ballistic/cruise missile defence, torpedoes, naval mines, and a Cluster Munitions replacement.
This is nothing new.
Obama ran out of bombs, too.
In December, 2015 CNN reported:
As the U.S. ramps up its campaign against the Islamist terror group in Iraq and Syria, the Air Force is now “expending munitions faster than we can replenish them,” Air Force chief of staff Gen. Mark Welsh said in a statement.“B-1s have dropped bombs in record numbers. F-15Es are in the fight because they are able to employ a wide range of weapons and do so with great flexibility. We need the funding in place to ensure we’re prepared for the long fight,” Welsh said in the statement. “This is a critical need.”
The bombing campaign has left the U.S. Air Force with what an Air Force official described as munitions depot stocks “below our desired objective.”
That same month, Reuters reported:
Lockheed has added a third shift at its plant, which employed 325 workers as of February, and is now at “maximum capacity,” said one executive familiar with the issue. The company announced in February that it will add 240 workers by 2020 and expand the facility, which also produces a 2,000-pound air-to-surface stealthy missile.
Frank Kendall, the Pentagon’s chief arms buyer, told Reuters this week there has been particularly strong demand for the Hellfire missiles. At $60,000 to $100,000 apiece [others put the price per unit at $110,000] they are inexpensive compared to many missiles and can be launched from everything from aircraft and helicopters and ships to destroy armored vehicles or punch into buildings.
Another failed missile test by Kim and the Hermit Kingdom has prompted Trump to mobilize a fleet of Grey Eagle drones in South Korea. Each Grey Eagle drone costs $31.2 million.
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The deployment means a whole lot of Hellfire missiles will be needed.
The Army’s version of the Predator/Reaper, the Grey Eagle drone, is headed to the Korean Peninsula. @julianborger: https://t.co/O2efMhE5p4
— 2 Lift 2 Teslas (@attackerman) March 14, 2017
Good news for Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and Boeing. Not so good for civilians in Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Libya, and Afghanistan.
“Evidence gathered on the ground in East Mosul points to an alarming pattern of U.S.-led coalition airstrikes which have destroyed whole houses with entire families inside,” Donatella Rovera, Senior Crisis Response Adviser at Amnesty International, told Newsweek in March.
“The high civilian toll suggests that coalition forces leading the offensive in Mosul have failed to take adequate precautions to prevent civilian deaths, in flagrant violation of international humanitarian law.”
According to Airwars, the US has conducted over 20,000 airstrikes in Iraq, Syria, and Libya, dropped 79,649 bombs and missiles, and killed at minimum 3,164 civilians as of April 30.
At least 53 civilians died in likely Coalition civilian casualty incidents in past week, according to our researchers. Heavy toll continues pic.twitter.com/U4CMtQMTr5
— Airwars (@airwars) April 27, 2017
Kurt Nimmo is the editor of Another Day in the Empire, where this article first appeared. He is the former lead editor and writer of Infowars.com. Donate to ADE Here.
Pure evil this Luciferian ZNWO’s ever warmongering sociopath mass murderers/robbers/rap*ists of the Muslim/Catholic world!
Whilst their Cannibal and Necrophilia corporations are also getting glutonous on profiting from all those evil bombs ( including by conveniently bombing other nations and humanity invaded by their own most evil terrorist cell, IS/ISIS/ISIL – which are created by MOSSAD/CIA as revealed by Snowden).
Unfortunately, many of the real Left, especially in the West, is dead (including due to infiltration by these ZNWO’s predators)!
This is plain to see in the UK Labour party, over ran with Blairites pushing neo-liberal policies. Can only hope Corbyn prevails and manages to get rid.
True indeed Rollo! But Corbyn unfortunately has been making strange compromises regarding the ZioNazis in IS-ra*l there: we have to see!
But I have hope for the Irish & Socttish Left though – hopefuly, Scotland and especially glorious ancient Catholic Ireland will be completely free one day!
Not to worry – there is ALWAYS MONEY FOR WAR.
They would have more bombs, if they didn’t use them being ISIS’ air force.
Running out of bombs? LOL You just can’t make this stuff up! Well, yes, they can and do, it’s what they do best – feeding us a steady diet of total and utter garbage to distract us from what’s really going on. Notice they’re only bombing sovereign nations with no central banks and with either oil, pipelines or opium? They need these countries to surrender and comply with their global central bank and Luciferian new world order which is not even close to being new, and is nothing short of total earthly domination of air, earth, water, weapons, bodies, minds, and ultimately souls which is really what they’re after, the psychopaths. These freaks go by many names but they’re all Luciferians – freemasons and Templar Orders, Zionists, royalty, attorneys, liberals, most politicians and church leaders, the Papacy, oh, the list is endless, but they are all under the umbrella of pure and undiluted evil and they all criss-cross each other, for instance, a freemason can be an attorney (one who turned from real law to fake law) can be a Zionist can be a Roman Catholic, etc. Bottom line, they’re all corrupt and mentally ill.
I don’t agree with you GbF on the issu of Papacy or Catholic leaders there! Yes, any Church or even the Vatican can be infiltrated by the ZNWO but that does not mean that all Catholic leaders or the Papacy needs to be brought down; but defended and reclaimed from such stealthy inflitration!
So I’m waiting on them to approve my response but it probably won’t pass muster which should tell you who we are not allowed to criticize. LOL You can find it on my chan nel on y t under discus sion, just for you. 😉
Another example of the Neonigger Military following the orders of their Reptilian Overlords.
“Frank Kendall, the Pentagon’s chief arms buyer, told Reuters this week there has been particularly strong demand for the Hellfire missiles………… or punch into buildings.”
Is this what was used on the Pentagon 9/11?
It was much bigger.
Making Bombs great again.
Of course they are running out of bombs. That will will always be the narrative distilled to the Populace to justify more spending to the elite owned war factories. What a joke.
Well, Trump did say he was going to modernize our military might. Something must be done with the outdated inventory.
Overkill on ISIS, make room for the latest tech. Two birds, one stone.
Funny how nobody talked about this when Barry O’Bomber was doing the same thing at a possibly higher rate.