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There is a rising concern about the status of some US munitions inventories amid reports emerging about high expenditures of Tomahawks, Patriots, and other missiles in the Iran war.⁣ ⁣ With Operation Epic Fury paused during a fragile ceasefire, latest analysis by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) looked at whether the US military is close to running out of ammunition.⁣ ⁣ The CSIS experts analyzed seven key munitions and concluded that the United States has enough missiles to continue fighting this war under any plausible scenario.⁣ ⁣ However, the risk, one that will endure for many years, lies in future conflicts.⁣ Since the start of the war on 28 February, US forces heavily used seven key munitions: Tomahawks, Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missiles (JASSM), Precision Strike Missiles (PrSM), Standard Missiles 3 and 6 (SM-3/SM-6), Terminal High Altitude Area Defenses (THAAD) and Patriots.⁣ ⁣ In some cases, the US military may have used more than half of its prewa...

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