alt Hacker NewsThey will be replaced, but most likely with something better. Which we would have done for modernization purposes eventually anyway, while disposing of the old stock.
Our wars are pre-paid for. America spends $900B/year on the military. Use it or lose it.
I don't think they expire that quickly. It's true they would have been replaced eventually, but this is accelerating that schedule for some munitions by a decade or two.
That $900B/year figure is for peacetime (or what passes for peacetime in an empire constantly involved in small conflicts around the world) and peacetime rates of equipment/munitions replacement. This is the most intense air war the US has been in since at least Desert Storm, maybe Vietnam. That level of expenditure is not already paid for.