Garrison Davis
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Each Tomahawk costs around $3.6 million to produce, and these are the only long-range offensive weapons mounted by our naval destroyers.
Per a source interviewed by Military Watch magazine, quote, without intervention, the Pentagon may be left out of ammunition.
Now, tomahawks aren't the only things the U.S.
military is low on.
Per that same article, inventories of anti-ballistic missiles and GBU-57 bunker buster bombs are estimated to have been almost totally spent while being significantly more costly to replace.
We just don't have granular data on the size of U.S.
interceptor missile stockpiles or our supply of stuff like Patriot missiles.
But we do have a pretty good understanding of how badly our regional allies have depleted their stockpiles of these defensive tools.
Bahrain is estimated to have expended 87% of their Patriot missiles.
The UAE and Kuwait are up to 75%.
And Qatar is at like 40%.
Experts estimate that Iran has gone through or lost via airstrike roughly a third of their ballistic missile stockpile.
This may or may not be accurate.
And if it's inaccurate, it may or may not be inaccurate in either direction.
Our intel and Israel's intel is often very spotty when it comes to stuff like this.
A good illustration of this would be the fact that on March 20th, Iran fired two ICBMs at Diego Garcia, an island in the Indian Ocean that hosts a joint US-UK air and naval base.
Neither missile did any damage, but that wasn't really the point.
The launch of these missiles was a message from the Iranian regime to the US one.
Previously, Iran had limited itself to only striking targets within 1,240 miles of its own borders with ballistic missiles.
Diego Garcia is roughly 2,300 miles away.