US used up ‘virtually all’ tactical ballistic missiles in attack on Iran – Reuters

The news agency has joined the chorus of media and independent assessments indicating Washington’s stocks are dangerously low The US military has effectively run out of high-precision land-based tactical missiles due to its campaign against Iran, Reuters has reported, citing sources familiar with the matter.Multiple media reports and independent assessments have signaled shortages of critical sophisticated munitions in the US inventory. Apart from draining the Pentagon’s attack capabilities, the conflict is believed to have put a major dent in the US stock of anti-aircraft missiles. The country’s leadership has repeatedly denied such assertions, insisting it still has plenty of munitions.The latest report was published by the Reuters on Tuesday. It said the Iran conflict has depleted the US Army’s stock of surface-to-surface missiles, namely Army Tactical Missile Systems (ATACMS) and Precision Strike Missiles (PrSM), with two sources telling the agency the military has used “virtually all” of those weapons. While the degree to which the US military exhausted its stock of ATACMS was not previously known, the apparent exhaustion of the PrSM stock has been repeatedly reported since mi...