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I haven't read any expert discussion, but I am wondering if that will be such a problem. That was an issue for ATACMS, but:
PrSM, which I understand to be the ATACMS replacement, was subsequently accepted by the Army.
https://www.twz.com/one-argument-against-giving-atacms-to-ukraine-is-about-to-erode
It sounds like we've also ramped up ATACMS production since then.
https://breakingdefense.com/2024/04/sullivan-says-ukraine-supplemental-should-cover-all-of-2024-long-range-atacms-now-in-ukraine/
In the case of JASSM, it's not ramping up production of a weapon with a large stockpile relative to production rate and limited production that's on the edge of being phased out, but a new weapon (well, in the case of the -ER variant); I'd guess that it's probably less painful to increase the rate of production if we need more for China.
https://www.lockheedmartin.com/en-us/news/features/2024/ramping-up--lockheed-martin-steadily-increasing-production-o.html
https://www.twz.com/air/jassm-stealth-cruise-missiles-now-on-the-table-for-ukraine-report
I mean, the "Arsenal of Democracy" rhetoric reminiscent of World War II is, I think, a bit overheated -- as I've pointed out before, if the US allocated a comparable level of GDP to military production to what it did in World War II, it could support hundreds of concurrent conflicts at the scale it is of the Russo-Ukrainian War. 2024 isn't 1944. But capacity has indeed been coming online; it's not static.