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US Warns Allies of Up to Five-Year Delays in Key Weapons Deliveries

The United States has warned allies that deliveries of some key weapons could be delayed by up to five years because its stockpiles of certain munitions are depleted. Germany has asked Washington to speed up deliveries of Tomahawk cruise missiles and Typhon missile systems, but manufacturers are unlikely to fill the orders within five years. The Congressional Budget Office said this month that US interceptor stockpiles have fallen by one-half to two-thirds since June 2025 and would take at least five years to rebuild even with higher production.

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This is a supply-chain signal before it is a defence story: the constraint sits with manufacturers, not just government stockpiles, which means allied procurement timelines are now being set by industrial capacity rather than political urgency. For RWA and tokenisation markets, the read-across is that defence demand is becoming a multi-year capital-allocation problem, and any move to finance or securitise that pipeline would run into the same physical bottlenecks. Whether the shortfall is treated as a production problem or a financing problem is the open question.

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