And that fleet of ad hoc bombers would exhaust the entire supply of missiles in the first strike, leaving the surviving aircraft with nothing to do. Today the production capacity for all AGM-158 variants is ~500 missiles/year, with plans to increase it to 1000 missiles/year. In an all-out war, the right scale would be more like 1000 missiles/day.
For more on how dire this situation is with the American industrial capacity to produce missiles in a war with China check out this comprehensive report:
