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陆军2027财年预算将PAC-3 MSE导弹采购目标增至四倍以上，达到13773枚，以应对中国威胁
作者：摩根·菲利普斯 福克斯新闻
2026年8月11日 美国东部时间早上6:00 发布
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“我们确实存在弹药问题”：海军上将警告美国库存过于单薄
退役海军少将马克·蒙哥马利表示，从伊朗冲突中得到的真正教训不是美国使用了过多武器，而是美国在卷入冲突时，储备的高端弹药数量不足。
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多年来，美国国防部在采购关键导弹防御拦截弹时一直相对保守，但与此同时，中国已经建立了全球规模最大的常规弹道导弹和巡航导弹库，而美国越来越多地将重点放在印太地区的冲突威胁上。如今，五角大楼正准备进行大幅政策调整。
在一系列以导弹为核心的冲突之后，美国防空系统多次被用于保护以色列、中东地区的美军部队以及红海的海军舰艇，导致五角大楼部分最先进、难以替代的弹药储量大幅下降。
在多年高强度导弹战之后，五角大楼突然调整政策，这引发了一个新的紧迫问题：为何美国花了这么久才着手扩充拦截弹储备？
美国在伊朗冲突中耗尽关键导弹库存，多年重建工作迫在眉睫
美国士兵和民众在2019年8月15日于德国安斯巴赫的卡特巴赫陆军机场举行的静态展示演示中，观摩MIM-104“爱国者”地对空导弹系统。（美国陆军照片，查尔斯·罗斯蒙德摄）
福克斯新闻数字频道获取的陆军2027财年预算显示，美军将大幅增加“爱国者先进能力-3导弹分段增强型”（PAC-3 MSE）和“终端高空区域防御系统”（THAAD，即萨德）拦截弹的采购量，这是快速扩大弹药工业基础整体计划的一部分，而该工业基础无法在短期内完成扩张。
与仅数年前的采购规模相比，这一转变尤为引人注目。
预算文件显示，2024财年PAC-3 MSE导弹的采购量为230枚，2025财年为214枚。同一本2026财年预算手册显示，陆军需求监督委员会在2025年4月将该导弹的采购目标从3376枚上调至13773枚——采购需求增幅超过四倍。
“问题在于25年来采购的弹药数量不足，”外交政策研究所高级研究员、退役海军少将马克·蒙哥马利告诉福克斯新闻数字频道。
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PAC-3 MSE和THAAD是美军应对弹道导弹袭击的最重要防御手段之一。“爱国者”导弹连为部队、空军基地和其他关键资产提供短程防护，而THAAD则旨在在更高高度和更远距离拦截弹道导弹，为指挥官提供另一层防御 incoming 袭击的能力。
路透社本周报道称，陆军在与伊朗仅五个月的冲突中，“几乎耗尽”了其ATACMS和精确打击导弹的库存，同时还大量消耗了“爱国者”和THAAD拦截弹。
一名男子在波兰凯尔采的国际军事博览会上，观看洛克希德·马丁公司制造的PAC-3 MSE导弹模型。（卡斯珀·彭佩尔/档案照片/路透社摄）
快速的弹药消耗，加上多年来相对保守的采购规模，引发了一个更广泛的问题：如果与中国这样的近邻对手发生更长时间的冲突，会发生什么？
“这种短缺完全是可以预见的，几十年来一直有人围绕拦截弹和弹药的采购数量展开争论，”传统基金会国防工业基础研究员吉姆·法因告诉福克斯新闻数字频道，“最终，预算权衡做出了选择，支持其他项目的一方占了上风。”
福克斯新闻数字频道审查的五角大楼预算文件显示，多年来美军一些最重要的导弹防御拦截弹的采购规模一直相对较小。
陆军预算文件显示，PAC-3 MSE导弹的采购量从2022财年的328枚降至2023财年的252枚，2024财年的230枚，以及2025财年的214枚。2026财年的预算申请开始上调，为320枚PAC-3 MSE导弹提供资金。
THAAD的采购规模更小。导弹防御局在2024财年采购了11枚拦截弹，2025财年采购了12枚。其2026财年的基本预算申请要求采购25枚，另外通过3.17亿美元的强制性和解资金额外采购12枚，使总数达到37枚。
这一采购历史与传统基金会的一项新分析结果基本一致。该分析估计，PAC-3 MSE导弹的年生产能力为620枚，THAAD拦截弹为96枚。撰写该报告的法因表示，美国采购量与总产能之间的大部分差距由外国军事销售填补。
美国采购滞后是五角大楼和国会双方决策的产物。
“预算权衡显然会带来艰难的选择，现在看来，许多过去的决定都是错误的，”法因说，“这包括五角大楼的采购申请决定，最终还有国会的拨款决定。”
“这种短缺完全是可以预见的，几十年来一直有人围绕拦截弹和弹药的采购数量展开争论。最终，预算权衡做出了选择，支持其他项目的一方占了上风。”
在这张未注明日期的美国国防部导弹防御局提供的手照片中，一枚THAAD拦截弹在成功的拦截测试中发射。（美国国防部导弹防御局/路透社供图）
到2027财年，这一做法发生了巨大变化。THAAD的采购责任已转移至陆军，陆军的预算申请支持生产857枚THAAD拦截弹：其中27枚通过可自由支配资金采购，另外830枚通过强制性弹药加速委员会资金采购。
但仅在纸面上下单订购数千枚导弹只是开始。
新的生产计划需要国会提供资金，同时需要军工企业建设必要的额外制造产能才能交付产品。法因将政府与国防公司达成的新协议称为“至少几十年来解决弹药短缺问题最重大的努力”。
“关键在于获得必要的资金，将框架协议转化为实际生产，”他说。
即使资金到位，补充美国的导弹库存也需要时间。先进的拦截弹依赖于专业的生产线和生产火箭发动机、导引头、制导系统、高能材料和其他组件的供应商网络，这些都无法在一夜之间扩张。
这意味着，计划中的采购大幅增加，与其说是立即补充耗尽的库存，不如说是试图建设工业产能，以便在未来几年维持更高的生产水平。
观众挥舞着中国国旗，搭载DF-41核弹道导弹的军用车辆在2019年10月1日北京举行的纪念中华人民共和国成立70周年阅兵式上驶过。（美联社照片/马克·席尔费尔贝因，档案照片）
传统基金会的报告指出，利害关系远远超出了与伊朗的冲突。
如果与中国发生冲突，美国的导弹防御系统将面临更大、更持续的需求，特别是如果北京向印太地区的美军基地和部队发射大量弹道导弹和巡航导弹的话。
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“拦截弹库存不是中国周边冲突中的一个辅助细节——它是联合部队能够存活足够长时间以取得胜利的关键，”法因写道。
该报告估计，美国在与中国的冲突中，其认为的最低可行库存需要7082枚PAC-3 MSE拦截弹和1394枚THAAD拦截弹——这是其估计的美国当前库存的数倍。美国实际的库存水平仍属机密。
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按照当前的生产速度，传统基金会估计，根据导弹系统的不同，生产其认为必要的拦截弹库存需要大约9年到80多年的时间。“缩小拦截弹差距的机会窗口正在缩小，”法因写道。
Pentagon races to buy 10X more missiles as Iran war dwindles arsenal, threatens readiness for China aggression
August 11, 2026 6:00am EDT / Fox News
Army’s fiscal 2027 budget more than quadruples its PAC-3 MSE acquisition objective to 13,773 missiles amid China concerns
By Morgan Phillips Fox News
Published August 11, 2026 6:00am EDT
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6403007365112
‘We do have a munitions problem’: Admiral warns US inventories are too shallow
Retired Rear Adm. Mark Montgomery says the real lesson from the Iran war is not that the U.S. used too many weapons, but that it entered the conflict without enough high-end munitions in reserve.
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The Pentagon is preparing a dramatic course correction after years of purchasing key missile-defense interceptors in relatively modest numbers — even as China built up the world’s largest arsenal of conventional ballistic and cruise missiles and the U.S. increasingly focused on the threat of a conflict in the Indo-Pacific.
Following a string of missile-heavy conflicts, U.S. air defenses have been used repeatedly to protect Israel, American forces in the Middle East and Navy ships in the Red Sea, drawing down some of the Pentagon’s most sophisticated and difficult-to-replace munitions.
The Pentagon’s abrupt course correction raises a question that has taken on new urgency after years of missile-intensive warfare: Why did the U.S. wait so long to build deeper interceptor magazines?
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U.S. Soldiers and civilians observe a MIM-104 Patriot surface-to-air missile (SAM) systems during a static-display demonstration Aug. 15, 2019, at Katterbach Army Airfield in Ansbach, Germany.(U.S. Army photo by Charles Rosemond)
The Army’s fiscal 2027 budget, reviewed by Fox News Digital, calls for a massive increase in purchases of Patriot Advanced Capability-3 Missile Segment Enhancement (PAC-3 MSE) and Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) interceptors, part of a broader effort to rapidly expand a munitions industrial base that cannot be scaled overnight.
The shift is particularly striking when compared with what the military was buying only a few years ago.
The budget documents show PAC-3 MSE procurement at 230 missiles in fiscal 2024 and 214 in fiscal 2025. The same FY2026 budget book shows the Army Requirements Oversight Council had increased its acquisition objective for the missile from 3,376 to 13,773 in April 2025 — more than quadrupling the requirement.
“The problem is 25 years of not buying enough munitions,” retired Rear Adm. Mark Montgomery, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, told Fox News Digital.
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PAC-3 MSE and THAAD are among the military’s most important defenses against ballistic missile attacks. Patriot batteries provide shorter-range protection for troops, air bases and other critical assets, while THAAD is designed to intercept ballistic missiles at higher altitudes and greater distances, giving commanders another layer of defense against incoming attacks.
Reuters reported this week that the Army has used “virtually all” of its ATACMS and Precision Strike Missile inventories in just five months of conflict with Iran, while also drawing heavily on Patriot and THAAD interceptors.
A man looks at a Patriot Advanced Capability (PAC-3) Missile Segment Enhancement (MSE) model by Lockheed Martin at an international military fair in Kielce, Poland.(Kacper Pempel/File Photo/Reuters)
The rapid expenditure, coupled with years of relatively modest procurement, raises a broader question: What would happen in a longer conflict against a near-peer adversary like China?
“The shortage was entirely foreseeable, and there have been arguments surrounding interceptor and munition procurement numbers for decades,” Jim Fein, a defense industrial base researcher at the Heritage Foundation, told Fox News Digital. “Ultimately, budgetary tradeoffs were made, and those arguing for other programs won out.”
The Pentagon budget documents, reviewed by Fox News Digital, show years of relatively modest procurement for some of the military’s most important missile-defense interceptors.
Army budget documents show PAC-3 MSE procurement fell from 328 missiles in fiscal 2022 to 252 in fiscal 2023, 230 in fiscal 2024 and 214 in fiscal 2025. The fiscal 2026 request began to move higher, with funding for 320 PAC-3 MSE missiles.
THAAD procurement was even smaller. The Missile Defense Agency bought 11 interceptors in fiscal 2024 and 12 in fiscal 2025. Its fiscal 2026 base request called for 25, while an additional $317 million in mandatory reconciliation funding added 12 more, bringing the total to 37 interceptors.
The procurement history broadly aligns with the findings of a new Heritage Foundation analysis, which estimates annual production capacity at 620 PAC-3 MSE missiles and 96 THAAD interceptors. Much of the difference between U.S. procurement and total production was accounted for by foreign military sales, according to Fein, who authored the report.
Lagging U.S. purchases were the byproduct of decisions made across both the Pentagon and Congress.
“Budget tradeoffs obviously lead to hard choices, and it now looks like many of those past decisions were wrong,” Fein said. “That includes decisions by the Pentagon in what they request, but ultimately what Congress appropriates.”
“The shortage was entirely foreseeable, and there have been arguments surrounding interceptor and munition procurement numbers for decades. Ultimately, budgetary tradeoffs were made, and those arguing for other programs won out.”
A Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) interceptor is launched during a successful intercept test, in this undated handout photo provided by the U.S. Department of Defense, Missile Defense Agency.(U.S. Department of Defense, Missile Defense Agency/Handout via Reuters)
By fiscal 2027, the approach had changed dramatically. Responsibility for THAAD procurement had shifted to the Army, and the Army request supports production of 857 THAAD interceptors: 27 through discretionary funding and another 830 through mandatory Munitions Acceleration Council funding.
But ordering thousands more missiles on paper is only the beginning.
The new production plans will require Congress to provide the money and industry to build the additional manufacturing capacity needed to deliver them. Fein called the administration’s new agreements with defense companies “the most significant effort to address munitions shortfall in, at a minimum, decades.”
“The trick will be obtaining the funding needed to turn the framework agreements into actual production,” he said.
Even with the money in place, replenishing U.S. magazines will take time. Advanced interceptors rely on specialized production lines and a network of suppliers producing rocket motors, seekers, guidance systems, energetics and other components that cannot be expanded overnight.
That means the dramatic increase in planned procurement is less an immediate refill of depleted inventories than an attempt to build the industrial capacity needed to sustain much higher production over the coming years.
Spectators wave Chinese flags as military vehicles carrying DF-41 nuclear ballistic missiles roll during a parade to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the founding of Communist China in Beijing on Oct. 1, 2019.(AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)
The stakes extend well beyond the war with Iran, the Heritage report argues.
A conflict with China could place far greater and more sustained demands on U.S. missile defenses, particularly if Beijing struck American bases and forces across the Indo-Pacific with large salvos of ballistic and cruise missiles.
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“Interceptor inventory is not a supporting detail in a China contingency — it is what allows the Joint Force to survive long enough to win,” Fein wrote.
The report estimates the United States would require 7,082 PAC-3 MSE interceptors and 1,394 THAAD interceptors for what it considers a minimum viable inventory in a conflict with China—several times the inventories it estimates the U.S. currently holds. Actual U.S. stockpile levels remain classified.
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At current production rates, Heritage estimates it would take between roughly nine and more than 80 years to build the interceptor inventories it believes are needed, depending on the missile system. “The window of opportunity to bridge the interceptor gap is closing,” Fein wrote.