These are missile interceptors, so they’re launched reactively against incoming missile or drone attacks. The biggest problem for them is that the incoming missiles/drones are way cheaper per shot than the interceptors are (and the interceptors don’t even always hit their target either). The next biggest problem is that the US fundamentally lacks the manufacturing capacity to scale up production, because its entire MIC graft machine is built around extracting absurd amounts of money for just enough munitions to maintain the typical endless occupation with occasional airstrikes model the American empire has been following for the past 25 years.
These are missile interceptors, so they’re launched reactively against incoming missile or drone attacks. The biggest problem for them is that the incoming missiles/drones are way cheaper per shot than the interceptors are (and the interceptors don’t even always hit their target either). The next biggest problem is that the US fundamentally lacks the manufacturing capacity to scale up production, because its entire MIC graft machine is built around extracting absurd amounts of money for just enough munitions to maintain the typical endless occupation with occasional airstrikes model the American empire has been following for the past 25 years.