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Iran war has drained US supplies of critical, costly weapons
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A man navigates the rubble of a building at Shahid Beheshti University in Tehran, Iran, after it was targeted by US-Israeli air strikes, on April 4.
PHOTO: ARASH KHAMOOSHI/NYTIMES
Eric Schmitt, Jonathan Swan
WASHINGTON – Since the Iran war began in late February, the United States has burnt through around 1,100 of its long-range stealth cruise missiles built for a war with China, close to the total number remaining in the US stockpile.
The military has fired off more than 1,000 Tomahawk cruise missiles, roughly 10 times the number it currently buys each year.
