>The U.S. has found it has more ATACMS in its inventory than originally assessed
How does this even happen? Forgetting about millions of dollars of equipment just to pull it out like pocket change is insane.
>The U.S.
>The U.S. has found it has more ATACMS in its inventory than originally assessed
How does this even happen? Forgetting about millions of dollars of equipment just to pull it out like pocket change is insane.
Remember what happened the last time the Pentagram tried to do an audit.
>the Pentagram
from now on that's what I'm calling it
>How does this even happen? Forgetting about millions of dollars of equipment just to pull it out like pocket change is insane.
Just goes to show just how much shit the US actually has despite the fearmongering suggesting otherwise.
It’s called calling actually being prepared for war.
There is no such thing as weapons that are able to sexually reproduce. There has never been a secret DoD program to create such weapons. OP is delirious and needs to be taken to the infirmary.
Why does the plane have a tongue. Do all planes secretly have tongues???
i wouldn't worry about it
Reminds me of the dragon vore anime.
>Remeber Ratbat is Russian
Do you think he's ok bros?
>may have inadvertently jacked off to a good artist I like getting droned
War is hell
There is no F-22/human hybrid. I know this for certain.
why did this make me horny
maybe he made it into the air force and is currently fucking planes and helos while dodging AA
I wouldn’t worry about it
The US has bases all over the world. Most are supply bases things get pulled fro or stored in from time to time. Figuring out what is or is not at a base requires going through a fuck ton of paperwork and req forms. The people who would be tasked with trying to account for all this stuff also have to account and process for everything new being made and shipped around, so they spend most of their time doing that instead. If we wanted the DoD fully audited, it would probably be a multi year process by a task force dedicated solely to that task.
But things work well enough, so as far as the Pentagon is concerned there's little reason to rock the boat.
I remember there used to be a Norwegian reservist who posted here about all the rare and old things he found in the US cold war mountain bunker he was tasked to guard like AR-10s and M48 tanks that are still out there in deep storage
As of a few years ago the MCPP-N bunkers in Norway has had most of their equipment replaced by modern USMC equipment. Here is an old pic of said bunkers tho.
That's remarkably gay. Why not digitize this with a system similar to UPS?
>Why not digitize this with a system similar to UPS?
Because you have to pay for it, and when people ask for defense budget increases everyone whines that we're funding a war machine rather than trying to do stuff like build nicer barracks, provide care for soldiers, or even make supply and inventory processess more efficient. Also any DoD network will inevitably be down for maintenance 1 day per work week or overloaded between 1300-1500 leaving only a few hours per day to actually use it. This is assuming that there are even adequate personnel to handle the task in the first place.
>Forgetting about millions of dollars of equipment just to pull it out like pocket change is insane
Someone mislabelled a spreadsheet and the person opening all the spreadsheets missed that one when they were counting ATACMS.
So a base full of munitions got skipped in the audit because BA-ORD-2020-07.xls was labelled "list for joe.xls" instead or something.
OP how many Hispanices do you have in your kitchen? How many pencils in your house? How many pairs of socks do you own?
There's certain info you don't need to know exactly at all times, right? You just know where to find a pencil if you need one.
There aren't hundreds of people employed specifically to keep track of how many Hispanices OP has in his kitchen, the same cannot be said of cruise missiles.
There aren't hundreds of people specifically devoted to keeping track of the # of ATACMS. The US has 750 bases outside of the USA, and another 400 - 500 installations within the US. It operates hundreds of systems, thousands of armaments and munitions and so has thousands of stores, each with their own inventories. Basically, once the numbers get big enough, everything is an estimate until you need to know.
this is commonly known as "lying" and its purpose here is presumably to provide cover / strategic ambiguity for china.
the real reason for no ATACMS aid to ukraine has always, obviously, been the low production volume. backfilling to the level of inventory deemed satisfactory for US purposes + the quantity required for ukraine tells china a number of informative things about the state of US stockpiles. planting alternative explanations of sourcing reduces confidence in production rate estimates, for instance.
This
Imho I find it important that they are provided. It shows resolution and willingness to engage. The story with Taiwan is the same, once they try to appease Chine they are fucked.
similar story with the "Black Sea Security Act of 2023" rider[1,2] attached to this year's NDAA, and the resumption[3] of Sea Breeze starting tomorrow. the strange bedfellows alliance of american politicos who aren't complete pussies is being called on to do every basic fucking thing now.
[1]: https://congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/2670/text?format=txt
[2]: https://archive.is/e1ZDi
[3]: https://archive.is/KAB4A
Cmon Anon, havent you put on a winter coat in Autumn that had been in a closet since March to find you'd forgotten 20 bucks in one of the pockets? Same thing
The boring answer is that they probably have retards counting inventory. Even none retards will fuck up cycle counts from time to time.
The U.S. military is so huge that they can casually miscount equipment worth millions.
>tfw you look behind your couch and find millions of dollars worth of advanced weaponry
>How does this even happen
they know how much they probably have
and then when they need to know, they go into the warehouse and count them.
Having excess stock is fine, if you don't need the space.
Well, the last time they did a full audit a commercial airliner with no wings accidentally hit the exact part of the Pentagon the files were stored in and all of the security camera footage was confiscated and destroyed.
and osama rightfully got acked for it
no a plane with proven plane debris all over the crash site hit an empty wing of the Pentagon in the process of being renovated by pissed off muslims
sometimes you just forget to fill in the paperwork on time and if nobody asks about it, it just disappears in the system, like a fart in a hot tub
>Misplace my NODs, I'm a villain
>Lose track of my tactical precision ballistic missile system, I'm a hero
It is just captains ordering new parts for their change of command inventories because they can't be arsed to send any soldiers to become forklift qualified and layout what they actually have
Because America has places to forget shit in too, but unlike the former commie bloc, said shit is stored in dry and warm places, under shrinkwrap or warehoused.