Friday, October 17, 2025

ESSM Inventory Perspective

Just a quick follow up on the previous post about the Blk 2 ESSM inventory.  As a bit of perspective, if the entire Blk 2 ESSM inventory were applied across the 70+ Burke class, that would give each ship approximately 7 missiles.  How’s that for an inventory?!
 
Of course, there are other ESSM variants but not all that much more.  If we go to war, I hope it’s a very, very short war!

5 comments:

  1. How many ESSM Blk2 are the bespoke Zumwalt variant ?
    Which don't work in Burkes.

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  2. One way or another, it will be a short war.

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  3. And China is in a better position to regenerate their navy after any conflict, with a significantly larger industrial base.

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  4. That is just so grim. Perhaps we can get the Chinese to build some for us in their unlighted robotic fab plants. I've read that they emplaced over 290K robots last year alone.

    https://engineerine.com/chinas-automated-dark-factories/
    https://youtu.be/Z2HwRrrNQ1w

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  5. Don't worry lasers are just around the corner!

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