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this amount of platforms are all they have in all fronts (the homeland, middle-east, europe, south america,...etc), they're not all in Asia, and there's the element of will: how much lives & platforms they're willing to sacrifice depending on the context & situation of the war?
And also factor their readiness levels, logistics and how much money to pay for all of that while maintaining other expenses...etc. And you need to mobilize the people for that war, and killing civilians in the middle east and carrying out day-to-day colonial & genocidal operations are different that facing an enemy that will hit you at home.
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Years and years to develop a stealth cruise missile. They just had to design an airframe. And they still manage to put air launched nuke capable long range stealthy cruise missiles in service a decade after the Russians. They will be getting a Kh-102 equivalent after Russia has the Kh-BD.
There are talks of cancelling the engine upgrade.
Good luck with that.
They are refurbishing 30 year old missiles.
Remains to be seen.
At a snail's pace. Maybe you will have something in 2040.
I would say the US is currently behind Iran in solid rocket missile technology.
Those are utterly fantastical numbers.
Especially the Columbia, Sentinel and stealth cruise missile numbers.
Maybe by 2050 or 2060.
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The most expensive and complex item has already been approved. The Senate has already approved the acquisition of 5 Columbia-class submarines.
The acquisition costs for the Sentinel missiles ($141 Bn) are greater than for the Virginia submarines ($132 Bn)
I am sorry, but what? The US has intercontinental ballistic missiles and has solid rocket motors for all kinds of applications. Sure the industry has atrophied, but Iran has never nor ever will be on par with US missile technology (in any shape or form).
China right now and likely in this decade cannot hit CONUS with consistency and tempo, the only thing China has that could reliably hit CONUS right now is ICBMs which are expensive, single use and reserved only for strategic nuclear strikes. PLA would need a large fleet of 095 SSGN and H-20 strategic bombers to reliably threaten CONUS conventionally.