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Trump orders ammunition, the military industrial complex obliges
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.
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
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