The U.S. Army has used up much of its stockpile of highly accurate long-range missiles during its five-month war with Iran, according to three people familiar with the data, raising concerns about the military’s readiness for future conflicts.
The missiles are principally the Army’s surface-to-surface weapons, known as Army Tactical Missile Systems (ATACMS) and Precision Strike Missiles (PrSM). The U.S. has used “virtually all” of these weapons, according to two of the sources.
The degree to which the military is running out of ATACMS and Precision Strike Missiles has not been previously reported.
The long-range munitions are an important part the military’s arsenal, allowing accurate strikes from a safe distance. U.S.-supplied ATACMS have played a key role in the war in Ukraine, allowing Ukrainian forces to attack targets inside Russia. The PrSM is a newer, more advanced generation that will replace the ATACMS, which have a shorter range.
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Because Hegseth is obsessed with setting records for numbers of bombs dropped, because he wouldn’t recognize strategic success if he saw it, which he hasn’t, because there hasn’t been any.
The US is really run by a bunch of Eejits
Should have been used up against the Kremlin. It is a disaster that it still stands as is.
I can’t help but think that’s bait to start a big war to keep Trump in power.
So glad we’ve been spending billions building and stockpiling these things for my entire life, only to run out after [checks notes] six months of bullshit that accomplished nothing.
Turns out giving a low IQ pedo the keys to the kingdom isn’t such a great idea.
Really wish conservatives/regressives weren’t so painfully stupid/bigoted.
What colour would you like your dragon?
The keys were for a bunch of expensive bullshit though.
Yes, the idiot deciding to use them is a problem - but so is the fact that they don’t work. America was bragging that other nations would find out why they don’t have healthcare . . . .except there’s not even the capability they thought they had.
Time to buy Lockhead Martin and Raytheon stocks before they hand the resupply bill to the Dems after midterms! /s ?
Nah. Lockheed makes both the ATACMS and the PrSM.
Ooooo…a one stop shop!
And accomplished sweet fuck all
They accomplished a lot:
- Throw a lifeline to Putin in the form of higher oil prices.
- Further undermine the international standing of the US.
- Make a complete mockery of whatever rules based order they’ve pretended to support.
- Encourage Xi to move against Taiwan.
The dismantling of the American empire is proceeding according to plan.
Don’t forget that stockpiled weapons don’t make any profit. You have to use them to create the need to make more. And make the military industrial complex more money. And those who speculate on those same companies.
Underrated comment. A lot of people don’t realize it’s only about money and always has been; the kleptocrats ruining this country only care about one thing: line must go up
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Except murdering children in their school. This fuckup should be attached to any title that involves Iran war.
Which was not an accident since they were “precision missiles”
Third hand info, but I heard on a podcast a few months back that the building had been an irgc hideout… like 10 months prior. With the administration’s complete knob-gobbling of AI, and no assets on the ground to provide updated intel, it’s likely that the AI said “shoot that one”, no one bothered to check before pushing the button, and the fathers and brothers of 150 little girls became all the more radicalized against the US.
So I wrote that, then decided to do more research than the DOD did and double-check things.
It’s worse than I wrote.
It was an IRGC building adjacent to an IRGC compound… in 2016. (the podcaster misspoke and said months instead of years)
[https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/mar/26/ai-got-the-blame-for-the-iran-school-bombing-the-truth-is-far-more-worrying](This article from The Guardian) details it quite well.
The building in Minab had been classified as a military facility in a Defense Intelligence Agency database that, according to CNN, had not been updated to reflect that the building had been separated from the adjacent Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps compound and converted into a school, a change that satellite imagery shows had occurred by 2016 at the latest. A chatbot did not kill those children. People failed to update a database, and other people built a system fast enough to make that failure lethal.
The school was near a base, a lot of the parents were officers. They tripple-tapped the school hoping to use dead children as bait to kill their parents.
One man’s shortage is another man’s bounty.
its soley used for targets that cant fight back.
Army Tactical Missile Systems (ATACMS)
Count on the army to refer to their missiles as "attack 'em"s.
Somebody was eating the Omega3-enriched crayons the day they came up with that
Assuming they were smart enough to eat them and not shove them up their nose.
Why do I have a terrible sneaking suspicion, propaganda or not, that this will be used as an excuse.
Rumors are floating that Russia is toying with making a move on Poland, or perhaps a smaller NATO member. One theory is they’re just posturing to detract from the situation with Ukraine and appear strong. Despite this, Ukraine relies heavily on assistance from EU/NATO countries for supplies/money. Even mildly credible threats may force some of those countries to scale back some assistance and focus on internal efforts, which impacts Ukraine’s supply chain.
How does this tie in with the US? If a NATO country is attacked and goes Article 5…the US might try to use this as an excuse for lack of significant aid.
There is no need for an excuse. Article 5 dictates members must help. But it does not dictate how. And members have a fair bit of discretion when it comes to how they assist.
Trump is upset that NATO didn’t help with Iran. And will “help” NATO the same way NATO “helped” him. He’ll be open about that without shame.
Well since the orange turd doesn’t give a fuck about contracts, or the constitution in general, he’ll pull something out of his
assdiaper to avoid obligations
The source of those rumors . . . .is apparently the US.
Why would Russia attack Poland, to widen a war that is already a quagmire?
I suspect that the US under Trump not coming to help if a smaller NATO members was attacked by Russia is pretty much considered a realistic scenario in the military planing in Europe for such an event.
Europe’s sudden desire for greater military investment started with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine but really took of when Trump became POTUS and started his adversarial posture towards Europe (most notably on Greenland), cutting down on help to Ukraine and general militaristic dick-waving.
I think the plan is for Europe to face Russia in a united way and, if the US actually helps in that, that would be nice but not critical.
Judging by the situation in Ukraine if Russia faced a united Europe even without the US it would be crushed no matter how many millions of conscripts they threw at it in human waves.
IMHO the critical part here is a united Europe directly engaging Russia militarily (rather than merely helping with weapons) if Russia attacks an European nation, no matter how small or peripheral, not the participation of the US military.
When the stakes are high and the costs of it real and significant (even just economically, as we saw with the delays in stopping importing Russian fossil fuels when Russia invaded Ukraine) Europe has trouble becoming united in an expedient way.
Judging by the situation in Ukraine if Russia faced a united Europe even without the US it would be crushed
I think that’s not the correct lesson. Ukraine, and now Iran, have shown that like in WWI the defenders in 21st century wars have incredible advantages. And that you need to be able to produce drones in massive numbers.
Neither of those favors Europe attacking Russia. Who, you might want to ALSO remember, is a fucking nuclear power.
If you’re so eager to go fight Russia, go sign up in Ukraine. But it’s a very bad idea for Europe to do so.
Whoa!
How the hell did you leaped from a discussion about “could NATO without the US defend Europe from a Russian attack on it” to “Europe attacking Russia”???!
I don’t know which hole that Russia-Propaganda-favorite strawman was pulled out of, but it stinks and has nothing to do with the point that was being made, either by me or in my understanding by anybody before me.
All of a sudden it’s like the charge of the tankie brigade around here.
Yeah, I’m a Titoist, not a tankie. Chickenhawks like you apparently can’t conceive of any other reason to not support a war, though - that is, as long as you’re not fighting, right?
Russia isn’t attacking Europe. Europe IS pouring money into Ukraine, with the open purpose of bleeding Russia.
If you want to make sure Russia doesn’t attack Europe, it’s already there - nuclear weapons, which France has, and drone factories. You don’t need to create a massive military industrial complex. The only scenario that doesn’t support is Europe attacking Russia - which, from your nonsense about “crushing” Russia, seems to be what you want.
It’s been no secret that the orange turd has wanted to pull the US out of NATO. It’s also no secret that when he got back into the white house several European countries began to strengthen themselves and each other in the event that does happen.
The billionaires need to pony up now so we can build more.
You know that’s not how this works
There is simply no productive capacity for it. You can spend however many billions you want, but dollars don’t magically turn into factories or rare earth metals.
That doesn’t mean you can’t order and pay for them
It’s just exposing how the weapons belong to a dead end tech tree. The future of war is getting fragged by dollar store drones.
Honestly I don’t think that’s what we’re looking at. This is closer to what happened with machine guns and then later tanks during WW1 and WW2. What we’re looking at is a cavalry charge getting shredded by a machine gun and saying mobile warfare is dead, meanwhile the British and French are doing tank R&D.
This happens every couple of decades and lasts about a decade before proper counters can be developed, mind you it’s still busted as shit until said counters appear but still.
I can’t wait for the weapons industry to unveil the next man made horror beyond my comprehension they’ll think of to counter drone swarms
Things are so bleak my mind automatically answered “decoy conscripts.”
In this particular case it’ll probably be something we already have just cheaper and more specified. Personally my money is on automated AA designed for drones specifically using relatively cheap parts and firing cheap munitions like small caliber rounds to detonate drone payloads. Will probably still cost a hundred bucks or two but that’s well within acceptable costs if they work well enough.
I think it will be something we already have, but AI-driven. Probably with autonomous “shooting decision” this time. But I’ve seen enough science fiction to know that’s a can of worms that is best left closed.
Becoming clear that the military industrial complex is actually a very badly diaguised kleptocracy, not that I like either option.
The Pentagon has never passed a budget audit. They had 8. This video explains is quite well. https://youtu.be/T9IV09cvXx4
That’s been obvious for nearly 26 years now
Yeah, the one thing this Admin can’t hide at the end of the day is how much money has been evaporated between the war and whatever financial schemes they’ve enacted along the way. Hope the Repubs love paying for that
It wont be an issue unless the dems get the house and/senate.
And if that happens the Republicans will spend the next however long it takes them to win it back loudly demanding the Democrats somehow eliminate the deficit and cut any program the Republicans don’t like (I.E. anything that helps people instead of lining the pockets of the oligarchs).
I will never not use the opportunity to post this: https://www.milwaukeeindependent.com/thom-hartmann/two-santas-strategy-gop-used-economic-scam-manipulate-americans-40-years/
Here’s how it works, laid it out in simple summary:
First, the Two Santas strategy dictates, when Republicans control the White House they must spend money like a drunken Santa and cut taxes to run up the U.S. debt as far and as fast as possible.
This produces three results: it stimulates the economy thus making people think that the GOP can produce a good economy; it raises the debt dramatically; and it makes people think that Republicans are the “tax-cut Santa Clauses.”
Second, when a Democrat is in the White House, Republicans must scream about the national debt as loudly and frantically as possible, freaking out about how “our children will have to pay for it!” and “we have to cut spending to solve the crisis!” Shut down the government, crash the stock market, and damage US credibility around the world if necessary to stop Democrats from spending money.
This will force the Democrats in power to cut their own social safety net programs and even Social Security, thus shooting their welfare-of-the-American-people Santa Claus right in the face.
And, sure enough, here we are now with a Democrat in the White House. Following their Two Santas strategy, Republicans are again squealing about the national debt and refusing to raise the debt ceiling, imperiling Biden’s economic recovery as well as his Build Back Better plans.
And, once again, the media is covering it as a “Biden Crisis!” rather than what it really is: a cynical political and media strategy devised by Republicans in the 1970s, fine-tuned in the 1980s and 1990s, and rolled out every time a Democrat is in the White House.
The flip side of this, of course, is that the Democrats need to be incompetent enough and/or complicit enough to keep falling for it.
And the Democrat who’s elected will be at best a centrist DINO who won’t do anything to move the needle, playing into the eventuality of a Trump 3.0.
Trump probably won’t live long enough for a non-consecutive Trump 3.0, let alone have the mental capacity to even pretend he can do it. It’ll be MAGA (or neo-MAGA), but not Trump. To be clear, this is the worst case scenario because American democracy wouldn’t survive an afternoon in the hands of someone smart in Trump’s position.
I keep telling myself the following:
- There’s no way he’ll make it to the midterms,
- There’s no way he’ll make it past 202n
Henry Kissinger and Strom Thurmond lived to 100. Karma and/or God do not exist
I just read the prologue for The Enemy Within don’t spoil the rest of the story
