U.S. Navy warships are firing top ballistic missile interceptors at an 'alarming rate,' admiral says

U.S. Navy warships are burning through one of the top ballistic missile interceptors at an "alarming rate," the admiral overseeing naval operations told lawmakers on Tuesday.

During a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing, Hawaii Sen. Brian Schatz said US forces have expended large amounts of munitions to defend Israel from Iranian strikes during the latest round of conflict in the Middle East and asked whether the Navy has all the Standard Missile-3 interceptors that it needs to be ready for other global threats.

Adm. James Kilby, acting chief of naval operations, said that the service does have a sufficient supply of interceptors, but, he said, "we are, to your point, using them at an alarming rate."

"As you know, those are missiles procured by the Missile Defense Agency and then delivered to the Navy for our use," he added. "And we are using them quite effectively in the defense of Israel."

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SandWitch · 26-30, F

With all due respect to the US Navy, through my Service Connection with the Royal Swedish Navy I learned a very long time ago that the US Missile Defense Agency procures all of the US military's missiles and small arms ammunition from Canada, not from the USA!

The reason that Canada has supplied the US military with ammunition and bombs since WWI and WWII and which includes all munitions used during the Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan wars, is because Canada has the raw materials which are mined from the earth in northern Canada to make bombs and the like, whereas the USA does not have that mining capability. The USA has coal mines and the odd gold mine but that's where US mining pretty much ends.

The immediate problem is, Canada has recently announced that it is no longer doing Trade business with the USA as a Trading Partner, particularly when it comes to purchasing military assets, which means that Canada has been sending all factory-made bullets and ballistic missiles over to Ukraine to aid in the ongoing war against Putin ever since the USA retreated from that action.