I am guessing he meant Vietnam War.
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I am guessing he meant Vietnam War.
It looks like current US missile production capacity is ~4,000 per year. The missiles included in this assessment, "are PAC-2, PAC-3 & MSE, AIM-120, AIM-9x, AMRAAM-ER, ESSM, THAAD, and Standard Missiles (all)."
Someone know the shelf life of most of these and the number in stock ? Would be interesting to know how many need to be build just to renew the stock ?
We know that AIM-120 have a shelf life of 10 years, they had about 11 000 after 10 years of production in 2018. If they have 10000 in stock piles they shoult need a production of 1000 per year just to sustain their stockpile of amraam in theory.
So 4000 for all the types combined don't look that big if they have about the same shelf life of 10 years...
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Yes.
I would treat this as an upper-ceiling estimate. I find this account to be just a little over-optimistic in general.
I think it is tracking max production capacity or installed production capacity. Further discussion on missile production levels and just general production levels in the US I will post these tweets below.
US max production rate of AIM-9X currently sits at ~1,400 missiles a year, but contracts have gone out to increase tooling to bring that rate up to 2,500 missiles a year. Between AIM-9X and AIM-120 that would give a maximum production rate of ~3,700 missiles.
JASSM production ramp to to eventually hit 1,000 a year near 2028-30. Currently production sits at 45 missiles a month and will ramp to 60 a month by 2026.
Compared to World of Tanks, using actual money seems rather expensive.
Just need World of Warships to introduce missiles and radars.
Fincantieri has developed a welding robot for shipbuilding in collaboration Comau called MR4Weld. They have placed large scale orders for it already in Italy and are looking to export it to the US soon. The Marinette Marine yard is moving to produce two Constellation Class frigates per year (contract is for three every two years) as the experience gained from producing the class previously and automation should make this possible.
The US has not yet purchased the blueprints for the design which would allow them to contract an additional yard to produce four Constellation class frigates per year. Previous reports indicate that Austal's yard in Mobile is switching to steel production in anticipation of being the second yard for the Constellation class. Huntington-Ingalls has also expressed interest in producing the Constellation class.
The US has not yet purchased the blueprints for the design which would allow them to contract an additional yard to produce four Constellation class frigates per year. Previous reports indicate that Austal's yard in Mobile is switching to steel production in anticipation of being the second yard for the Constellation class. Huntington-Ingalls has also expressed interest in producing the Constellation class.
I think its still early going, so it remains to be seen how it will work out. Four Constellations per year would be a good production amount and as you said would allow them to spare the destroyers from being overworked.
Depending on how things play out, the USN could be producing a good number of ships per year near the end of the decade. I think the best possible output case for them would look something like this:
- 4 Frigates per year
- 4 Destroyers (Arliegh Burke or whatever the successor is) per year
- 3 Virginia SSN (2 without AUKUS) per year
- 1 Columbia SSBN per year