BAE, Lockheed to increase munitions, citing Trump, but scepticism also around
Lockheed Martin and other companies like Northrop Grumman took to X today to announce they’re quadrupling munitions production, but not before offering some gushing tributes to Trump, Hegseth, and Feinberg.
In a Truth Social post being shared around by these military companies, President Trump boasted about a “very good meeting” with the CEOs of the biggest defense companies about munitions production.
Trump wrote that:
They have agreed to quadruple Production of the ‘Exquishaite Class’ Weaponry” and that the U.S. wants “to reach, as rapidly as possible, the highest levels of quantity.
The meeting included the heads of the UK’s BAE Systems, Boeing, Honeywell Aerospace, L3Harris Missile Solutions, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and Raytheon. He said they will meet again in two months.
You are war profiteering monsters. https://t.co/3FLlNcv032
— CODEPINK (@codepink) March 7, 2026
Nathan J Robinson, editor of Current Affairs condemned their killing of school girls.
dead kids are great for business https://t.co/I8y1mQdlRy
— Nathan J Robinson (@NathanJRobinson) March 7, 2026
Ryan Grim of Dropsite News sarcastically thanked the military company for its patriotic duty.
Lockheed selflessly and patriotically agrees to quadruple its production. What would we do without our military industrial complex? 🔥❤️🦅🇺🇸 https://t.co/uc3StHeL9f
— Ryan Grim (@ryangrim) March 6, 2026
Jackie Walker said that all war was a profit equation for capitalism.
Of course they are! All war is a profit equation for capitalism. We need to control the demons before they destroy us all https://t.co/AdBMHOqN7I
— Jackie Walker – HRH, MP, MBE, ABC (@Jackiew80333500) March 7, 2026
US’s other major military company, Northrop Grumman made an almost identical tweet.
We are proud to be part of the President’s focus on speed and investment to deliver military strength for our nation. Thank you for your leadership President @realDonaldTrump, @SecWar Hegseth and Deputy Secretary Feinberg. https://t.co/QqrNQzyNpK
— Northrop Grumman (@northropgrumman) March 6, 2026
Scepticism about Trump’s ‘unlimited supply’
Apart, from expressing horror for the destruction these bombs create, people were also calling bullshit.
Podcast Carl Zha said that the US had no plan.
They’re desperate.
There’s no plan https://t.co/7XhuICXCzI
— Carl Zha (@CarlZha) March 6, 2026
Time magazine reported that the war with Iran is burning through U.S. weapons stockpiles so fast it’s raising concerns from Ukraine to Taiwan about whether there’s enough left to defend against Russia and China.
From Washington to Ukraine to Taiwan, there’s growing concern that Iran is draining U.S. supplies of weapons relied on by U.S. allies. https://t.co/qOPobJ0FHl
— TIME (@TIME) March 4, 2026
Time Magazine said
When the U.S. ramped up its weapons shipments to Ukraine to fend off Russia’s invasion, it drew down from existing stockpiles and didn’t increase spending on industrial production enough to fill the hole, says Katherine Thompson, a former Pentagon official at the beginning of Trump’s second term who is now a defense expert at the Cato Institute.
When Biden and Congress approved massive weapons shipments to Ukraine, those bills blew through a previous $100 million limit on raiding U.S. stockpiles to transfer weapons to allies, Thompson says. “To be fair to the Trump Administration, they inherited this problem from mass draw downs of U.S. stocks,” she says.
Reuters also reported US looking for critical minerals — need for making munitions and other military hardware, before US began the illegal war on Iran.
Pentagon sought fresh supply of 13 critical minerals day before Iran attack https://t.co/06eX7vc26u https://t.co/06eX7vc26u
— Reuters (@Reuters) March 4, 2026
Andrew Gawthorpe of Leiden University said the U.S. and its allies might run out of air defenses before Iran runs out of airborne projectiles.
The exact size of missile defence stocks is classified. But a look at budgetary and procurement data suggests that US forces will become stretched within a matter of days or several weeks at the very most. At that point, the US will have to begin drawing down missile defence stocks from the rest of the world.
A day before the U.S. and Israel launched strikes on Iran, the Pentagon quietly asked mining companies to help boost domestic supplies of 13 critical minerals used to make semiconductors, weapons, and other military products.
The request, reviewed by Reuters, went out last Friday to members of the Defense Industrial Base Consortium, a group of more than 1,500 companies and universities that supply the military. The deadline for proposals is March 20.
The list includes arsenic, bismuth, gadolinium, germanium, graphite, hafnium, nickel, samarium, tungsten, vanadium, ytterbium, yttrium and zirconium.
So, Lockheed Martin’s love letter on X might just be a cover for the Pentagon quietly scrambling to secure the materials needed to actually build the weapons they just promised to quadruple.
Featured image via US Army
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As all this was foreseeable why do they appear to have been caught out? Is this evidence that pervert Trump is desperate to distract from the Epstein files?
That’s a ramp up to wartime productivity levels. Looks like World War III in about twelve months to two years. Nice knowing you folks.
The great misfortune of present day life is that we have forgotten the purpose of work and become confused by the pseudo-science of economics. Work should lead us to prosperity by following the simple rule of only doing what advances prosperity and avoiding what does not. But politicians and economists have taken their eyes off what we do and become wrongly focused on how it is measured.
Money is a measure of what we do. It has no intrinsic worth of its own but is simply a means of exchange, unit of account and store of value. Could it be that the system is valuing the things we do that hinder prosperity as equal to those that advance it? If so, would this not devalue the money we are using as the measure? Importantly, could this be a previously obscured explanation for the increasing cost of living, for the necessities that sustain us and provide shelter and comfort?
For example, the arms trade is a hugely wasteful use of vast resources manufacturing harmful products but the many manufacturers’ balance sheets and the country’s GDP state it is profitable. Measured in money, the value of adverse production is calculated to be equal to prosperous production. A problem of economics deeming all production to be wealth creation and of positive value, even when contrary to the common good of all humanity.
The global arms trade is negative value production that adversely impacts on international currencies, our living standards, the natural world and, above all, life itself.
This hypothesis questions the way economics is taught and practised.
The west has been ramping up its arms production since it started the war in Ukraine and has still not met targets but has managed to blow up two factories in the USA.
The west has run out of ammunition in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Ukraine, so its announcement that it will ramp up is not new and probably just another joke.
Technically what are its problems
Explosives must be sourced from Poland and other states a long way from the USA
Electronics must be supplied by factories that have a two to three year timescale for the types of components used – military grade products are slow to make and test.
Currently the US produces a fraction of the munitions of Russia (which has a tenth of the budget)
New factories in the US will be hard to build, technical staff for the high end tech that the US insist on using make manufacturing slow and difficult. Modern drone remote warfare requires a completely different skillets that the US Wall St war machine doesn’t posses
Blaming Biden is missing the point but still handy. The US lacks the capacity for a long war, it has always planned on 30 days and then go nuclear. After 30 days, the Cold War plan was for Europe to be flattened and all the troops dead, nuclear was the only way to keep going
Then the US decided that is was the global ruler and no country could match it but it failed to understand its several hundred years wars against the American natives so when it came to other wars in Vietnam, Korea etc, it could then carpet bomb
More recently the tech companies convinced the military that ‘smart’ bombs with expensive guidance were more efficient at killing (which they aren’t) hence US weapons cost ten and more times the cost of other nations. Even the high tech F35 and other aircraft fail because of their complexity (2 services for every 1 in the air), they are currently flying without front end weapons radar because of component shortages (don’t blame China, this is LM and its expensive for profit design)