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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.

  • FabledAepitaph
    27·
    1 day ago

    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

      • orclev
        8·
        1 day ago

        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).

        • EisFrei
          8·
          1 day ago

          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.

          • NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.ioBanned from community
            1·
            1 day ago

            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.

        • LemmayngEnglish
          11·
          1 day ago

          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.

          • NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.ioBanned from community
            5·
            1 day ago

            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.

            • LemmayngEnglish
              2·
              1 day ago

              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