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What do you do when you have a hypersonic missile that costs around $15 Million, you have only 8 of them, and the batteries needed to fire it cost $3.6 Billion? Well, when you’re the peace president, you might want to use it to restart the Iran war that hasn’t stopped as the US is doing their blockade thing, which is an act of war. Or, you might want to demonstrate to other countries that you have hypersonic capabilities. Either way, it’s a win-win for the warmonger-in-chief and military defense contractors and corporations.
US May Deploy New Hypersonic Missile Against Iran as Trump Considers Restarting the Bombing Campaign – via antiwar.com
But maybe not to worry too much, as with everything else in this clown administration, they don’t know if the missile actually works or not.
The US wants to use a new missile on Iran. It might not even work. – via responsiblestatecraft.org
The hypersonic Dark Eagle failed to launch during some tests and is not considered battlefield ready
The U.S. is mulling using its first hypersonic missile against Iran — even though it may not yet be ready for battlefield use.
CENTCOM says it needs to deploy the “Dark Eagle” missile against Iran because it has been forced to move its launchers out of range for Washington’s Precision Strike Missile, which the U.S. is now running low on, according to a report from the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
Although it completed some successful tests in 2024, the Dark Eagle repeatedly failed to launch during other tests because of launcher and production quality issues. An unnamed defense official told Fox News that the weapon has reached “initial operational capability,” but the Pentagon testing office says it won’t have enough data to evaluate Dark Eagle’s combat effectiveness until early 2027.
The request comes amid a deadlock in U.S.-Iran talks that could spark a return to all-out war. President Donald Trump has pledged to maintain a blockade of Iranian shipping in the Persian Gulf, but Iran says it will only come to the table if the U.S. lifts the siege.
As Jennifer Kavanagh, senior fellow and director of military analysis at Defense Priorities, told RS, the possible Dark Eagle deployment “suggests that the Pentagon has lost all perspective.”
“Iran is not an existential threat, and the United States should not be expending its highest-end missiles there no matter what,” Kavanagh said. “The unit cost per missile is $41 million or so. Are any targets in Iran worth this much?”
Another expert observed that a deployment soon might help the Dark Eagle get more funding for next year’s defense budget.
“How do you know it is defense budget season in Washington? An unnecessary push to deploy a not-yet-fully-operational hypersonic missile against Iran,” Kelly Grieco, Senior Fellow at the Stimson Center, wrote on X. “Nothing says ‘fund me’ like first use, I guess.”
Look at how this administration of idiots can boast about not only ending innocents’ lives with their wars of choice, but can also waste billions on a war that is wreaking havoc on the lives of others in distant lands, and is just starting here in the US.
Soon Comes The Mother of All Supply Shocks
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What will be unfolding at unprecedented scale during the months ahead is dislocations, screaming imbalances, severe bottlenecks and absolute physical shortages in global markets for upwards of 200 million BOE of liquid petroleum, LNG, LPGs and hydrocarbon processing by-products – fertilizer, sulfur, helium, aluminum etc. These unfolding dislocations will be roiling the global economy like never before.
On the one hand, “demand destruction” will be pulling global output lower as production is curtailed either by swelling costs or availability. On the other hand, soaring premium prices will be attempting to bring drastically dislocated supply/demand relationships back into balance via arbitrage all around the globe.
Once the adjustment process gets a full head of steam, the Mother of all Supply Shocks will hardly do justice to describing the carnage, as we will further amplify in Part 2. (full article)
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Tonight’s musical offering:
Dispatches from the Asylum 