A report from the “Wall Street Journal” indicates that the Pentagon has started urging arms suppliers to double production, in anticipation of any military clash with China, especially in light of the US inventory of weapons. Recently, the Board of accelerating ammunition production was formed headed by the US Deputy Minister of Defense, whose mission appears to be similar to the race over time; Which compels him to communicate and coordinate with officials of weapons manufacturing companies weekly, according to the report.
One missile requires nearly two years for assembly in addition to several months and hundreds of millions of dollars for rehabilitation tests before obtaining approval to use it by the American armed forces. Although the Trump administration pumped an additional $ 25 billion to finance the increase in military manufacturing, observers believe that the required completion speed requires much more money.
The war on Ukraine was the warning bell that awakened the Pentagon and the entire manufacture of weapons in America after weapons production in the past years declined to the point that many weapons have become without spare parts, especially interceptor missiles such as the Patriot, which are currently used to intercept Russian missile attacks.
The use of hundreds of expensive advanced missiles in America’s attack on the Iranian nuclear reactor a few months ago led to a decrease in its missile stocks; This makes the intensification of production a maximum necessity. The need is now to obtain 12 species of missiles, including anti -ship missiles, most notably the Patriot missiles; Especially since “Lockheed Martin”, the manufacturer, suffers from the inability to provide it due to the great demand for it; Forcing it to increase the number of workers and expand the spaces of the factory.
This rapid move by the Americans to prepare for any confrontation with China has its vivid causes. China has a military force that grows double annual growth. After the Chinese military budget did not exceed the sixth of what the United States of America allocates to military spending in 2012, the Chinese military budget today reached a third of America. China spends five times what Japan spends on the military side and seven times what South Korea spends as well as two ally to America in the Far East; This indicates a severe imbalance in the balance of strength between China and America’s allies, which is inevitably threatening American interests.
China also has the world’s largest arsenal of ballistic missiles, some of which are 4 thousand kilometers, threatening the American bases in the Pacific Ocean, such as the Joam Island base. China has exceeded the US Naval Force since 2014 in terms of naval number, and its fleet of air fighters is in a rapid development, especially with the entry of J-20 fighters of the fifth generation capable of hiding and hitting targets with high accuracy. China has 600 nuclear heads, according to the estimates of this year 2025, and seeks to double the number by 2035, which reaches a number of Russian and American nuclear heads.
All this seems to be an arms race between two nuclear powers similar to the race in the world during the Cold War. Undoubtedly, military superiority – and not the economy – is the basis for the imposition of international domination, which will not neglect the United States of America even with the rise of China and its struggle for it.
