Exquisite precision weapons cannot survive the attrition rates of industrial warfare.
The high rate of ammunition consumption in modern combat forces defense programs to pivot away from limited stockpiles of expensive, high-end systems toward low-cost, mass-producible alternatives.
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The extreme consumption of high-end precision-guided missiles in active conflicts has left Western defense industries struggling to keep up with attrition.
The extreme cost-imbalance of using elite precision systems to fight cheap drone swarms has rapidly exhausted critical military inventories.
Industrial-rate consumption drains exquisite interceptor stockpiles faster than a 600-per-year production line can replace them.
The UK Ministry of Defence is restructuring its pipeline because exquisite high-end assets are consumed far too quickly in modern high-intensity conflicts.
Ukrainian defense start-ups are designing cheap, local interceptors and rockets to escape the extreme costs of Western systems.
Scarce, exquisite interceptors are being displaced by cheap, mass-producible sovereign substitutes.
A five-month conflict with Iran has nearly exhausted the U.S. military's premium long-range strike systems, showing that high-end precision weapons cannot survive high attrition rates.