Patriot Missile Production Is “On Steroids” as the U.S. Rebuilds Its Stockpile

For that, meanwhile, top defense manufacturer Lockheed Martin is now racing to ramp up production as the war with Iran continues. Fox News got an exclusive tour of their production floor as they try to overcome supply chain hurdles. Brooke Taylor was there. She's got the details. Hi, Brooke. Hi, Aisha. That's right. President Trump pushing back hard on reports about America's ammunition supply, posting today that we have virtually unlimited amounts of mid to high-grade ammunition. Now, all of this comes as Fox News got exclusive rare access inside Lockheed Martin, one of America's biggest missile manufacturers in Grand Prairie, Texas. We saw that ramp up firsthand. Now, the war in Iran, it's putting fresh pressure on U.S. weapons stockpiles, and the race is on to keep them full. We went onto the factory floor here where workers are building components from guided multiple rocket systems to Patriot missile interceptors. The president of Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control, Tim Kale, says Patriot missile interceptor production is, quote, on steroids right now. Our job, though, is to make sure that there's a strong and growing supply of these munitions for both the United States and for our global allies. So, any of the given munitions, we're in the hundreds, typically, sometimes thousands with some of the munitions. We are going to increase by three or four times pretty much every munition that we build right now. And just today, President Trump posting this on Truth Social, quote, we are producing munitions at levels never seen before. We're stockpiling and preparing for any contingency that could happen. We're taking them for ourselves, the USA, rather than selling them to others. I have over 20,000 people in Missiles and Fire Control alone, many tens of thousands of people within the supply chain. We continue to find places that we can get faster, where we can increase the technological throughput, where we can put in new technology, like, like I say, additive manufacturer and machine learning, AI is all critical to all of this. And Lockheed is investing eight to nine billion dollars of its own money, expanding things like factories, buying equipment and investing in technology and AI to produce weapons and at a much faster rate, Ayesha. OK, Brooke Taylor, thank you very much for that story. Streaming now on Fox one.