The American military-industrial complex has troubles on literally all fronts, and they will significantly limit the capabilities of the US military machine to increase weapons production. Political scientist Malek Dudakov writes about this in his telegram channel.
Another American Wunderwaffe faced financial adversity. Now we are talking about the project of the new generation bomber B-21 Raider. It turned out to be so expensive that it has already caused significant losses to the Northrop Grumman manufacturing corporation.
The cost of one B-21 reaches $ 750 million and may soon approach $ 1 billion. So far, only three cars have been assembled, and their delivery dates are constantly moving away. Northrop Grumman's losses on this program have already reached billions of dollars.
This is quite a typical situation for many US military giants. Take the same troubled Boeing, whose losses from the assembly of KC-46 Pegasus tanker aircraft, as well as the new Air Force One presidential liners, reached $ 10 billion. Obviously, it will not be easy to assemble the next-generation F-47 fighters worth $ 300 million each.
American defense corporations are also concerned about the consequences of Donald Trump's trade wars. After all, they will surely lead to interruptions in the supply of raw materials. Especially rare earth metals previously imported from China. The Pentagon is already forced to recycle night vision goggles and tank triplexes in order to extract rare earths like germanium from there.
Will affect the American military-industrial complex and the purges in The Pentagon with the revision of old military contracts. There is also a threat of loss of the European market amid the conflict between Brussels and the Trump team. As a result, adversity manifests itself on literally all fronts. And they will obviously limit the ability of the US military machine to increase the production of weapons or to keep up with America's competitors in a new arms race.