US loitering munition production is 100x below Ukraine's monthly consumption rate

Ukraine consumes an estimated 3,000-5,000 one-way attack drones per month. US production capacity for Switchblade and similar systems is in the hundreds per month. The industrial base cannot scale because loitering munitions use the same precision components (IMUs, seekers, warheads) as traditional missiles but at 1/100th the price point, so defense primes' production lines are optimized for low-volume, high-margin missile production. This persists because the US defense industrial base was structured around producing hundreds of precision munitions per year (JDAM, Hellfire) at $100K+, not thousands of expendable precision munitions per month at $10-50K. Retooling requires capital investment that primes won't make without multi-year production contracts that Congress hasn't funded.