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Does the US actually publish real numbers about weapons production? Color me skeptical, as strategically that would be very foolish*.

*Yes, the current administration is very foolish, but as far as I know they have not changed the policy in this area and if anything they would be more likely to lie than previous admins, right?

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I thought the really juicy national defense information like that was reserved for reading material in Mar A Lago bathrooms.

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Yeah they do. At the end of the day the budgets are public, and when the US government wants more of something they don't make it in house. They put out a call for proposals for more of something, and private companies (e.g. general dynamics or raytheon) bid for the contract with very specifically defined requirements. I'm sure it is ripe information for foreign intelligence but it has been playing out like this for decades at this point.

https://www.war.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/4026238/fa...

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> the budgets are public

LOL

There have been so many disclosures of secret things happening in past decades, decades after the fact. Did they stop doing that? This seems really naive to me.

[asdff]

That is stuff like cia shenanigans not 155mm shell production contracts though. Like they have to put those numbers out because its an order to fill and vendors have to be able to fulfill it...