RT by @mikenov: RT by @mikenov: 🇺🇸 🇮🇷 The Pentagon is racing to triple interceptor production as this war proves air defense gets won on a factory floor Look at the targets. PAC-3 output going from roughly 600 a year to 2,000. THAAD quadrupling from 96 to 400. Northrop just signed $3 BILLION in seven-year deals, and the Pentagon has cut about a dozen similar agreements since January. Now the detail that should bother you. Until this month, L3Harris was the ONLY company producing solid rocket motors for the PAC-3. One supplier, for the interceptor keeping American bases alive across two theaters at once. Reporting this week puts roughly 80 percent of the stockpile for a key defense system

🇺🇸 🇮🇷 The Pentagon is racing to triple interceptor production as this war proves air defense gets won on a factory floor

Look at the targets.

PAC-3 output going from roughly 600 a year to 2,000. THAAD quadrupling from 96 to 400.

Northrop just signed $3 BILLION in seven-year deals, and the Pentagon has cut about a dozen similar agreements since January.

Now the detail that should bother you.

Until this month, L3Harris was the ONLY company producing solid rocket motors for the PAC-3.

One supplier, for the interceptor keeping American bases alive across two theaters at once.

Reporting this week puts roughly 80 percent of the stockpile for a key defense system already spent.

So modern air defense comes down to a motor plant in West Virginia and an assembly line in Camden, Arkansas, and whether they can outrun a country building drones for pocket change.

Source: NYT, CNN / Writer: Daniel

— @MarioNawfal Aug 6, 2026