David Zier

I would just say, while we're claiming there's progress, Iran launched 10 more missiles at Israel a few hours ago.

But can we slow down operations on pretty much a high note?

Interceptors are getting kind of low.

You know, THAAD, Patriots, a new Pac-3 deal signed today with Lockheed and Boeing.

But we only make like 600 Patriot missiles a year.

You know, so I think it's in our interest to try to come to some type of conclusion here as the Gulf states and others continue to be under attack here.

There's also reports that another 28 10s were seen assembling, I think, in New Hampshire, may join the fight.

Three more strato tankers, I believe, are on the way over to the region.

And again, you know, we lost some strategic assets like the E3 Sentry AWACS and other, but the operation continued.

has been carried out.

And I just wanted to add really quick, the defense acquisition executive orders that Trump has been pushing that we've been following since last year, my stuff here at Department of War, is probably a very good thing because we've been operating on a wartime footing probably since the middle of last year at a minimum.

And I think we were ready for this, at least to take out the air defenses, the industrial complex, ballistic missile program.

I think that they're still focused on the mission and we're not taking our foot off the gas and not missing a beat as far as providing additional coverage.

I saw a report that 200 more aircraft approximately on their way from Europe to the Middle East, along with those A-10s that I talked about early arrived at RFK Lake and Heath Air Base, probably on their way over to the Gulf region.

And, you know, these versatile aircraft doing these

You know, these close air support in the straight probably serve a key role taking out any fast boats or anything like that.

But also, the Pentagon announced today that there's this PAC-3 deal to keep producing missiles, tripling the capacity for Lockheed and Boeing because, you know, the THAADs are upper atmosphere and you've got the PAC-3s in the middle and the Patriots below it.

There's a finite supply.

So I think that the message is we're going to wrap things up as quickly as possible and

But we're not going to take our foot off the gas until we do that.