This shows how quickly we would run out of most munitions and be back to old dumb stuff in a big war. (Ukraine is not a big war.) https://t.co/0c4NzQCFer

— Ian Welsh (@iwelsh) April 17, 2022

This motherfucker is just ridiculously wrong. That’s only about Javelins. Tons of other things can kill tanks, including Hellfire missiles, which we have 10,000+ of. We also can do JDAM on any old unguided munition and convert it to precision-guided in a few hours.

We have something like 20,000-30,000 JDAMs and 50,000+ dumb bombs that can be converted to precision-guided with those kits. You do the math on that. There is also JASSMs, GMLRS, and Tomahawks, all of which we have thousands of. Every single one of those can disable or kill tanks or really anything else an enemy can field.

And then there is artillery, of which the US has 4,000+ artillery pieces in service and more than enough rounds for them. (Artillery is devastatingly accurate, even with unguided munitions, unlike what you see in movies.) Also, many artillery pieces are capable of firing guided artillery rounds.

That leaves out also so, so, so many other weapons and systems. And that we can build more them, too, and would ramp up in a larger war.

Ian Welsh knows not a thing about any of this, and it shows. Fucking clown.