The money will flow in any second now.
The lead-time in producing missiles is measured in months and years and war games predict that the supply of most of them will be depleted in an initial engagement with China over Taiwan that sees Japan/Taiwan/US win but lose many ships.
After it's anybody's guess but China has 260x the naval production capacity of America so they'll be able to come back faster than the US can.
[0] https://www.csis.org/analysis/first-battle-next-war-wargamin...
If you take a look at page 8 of this pdf[0] you'll see that the wargames predict that hundreds of missiles will be used in the first few weeks of an engagement between China and the US over Taiwan. Page 10 will curdle your blood as you'll see that they anticipate to lose dozens of ships including two(!) aircraft carriers. Page 11 shows hundreds of losses of various aircraft.
SpaceX will not save those lives and they will not be able to replace the equipment in time for a second engagement with China.
Take a look at a previous comment that I wrote about this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42391816
[0] https://selectcommitteeontheccp.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites...
theres no guarantees that the US would get involved with china invading taiwan, either. again, look at ukraine. sales and donations of old materiel only
Especially if said entrepreneur is working with (or an outright front for) US intelligence, so they're sophisticated enough at this game to run an Airtag detector over the cargo when they transfer it from the ship the Chinese know about to the one they don't.
