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In a major war, missiles run short before ships

A short answer highlights the central long-war problem: guided-missile inventories are likely to be exhausted before fleets lose all their hulls.

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Question

If another world war began now, would navies run out of missiles or ships first?

Short answer

Missiles first.

Notes

The answer is immediate and unqualified: missiles. No estimate is given for stockpile depth, expenditure rates, or how quickly shortages would appear. The exchange still warns against treating hull numbers alone as a measure of how long a fleet can fight. Its value lies in the direct comparison, with the detailed logistics left unresolved.