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.
its soley used for targets that cant fight back.
I just read the prologue for The Enemy Within don’t spoil the rest of the story
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.
One man’s shortage is another man’s bounty.
They’ll just print money and pay Lockheed Martin to build a shit ton more
Americans are idiots for allowing this debt on their ledger.
Ah yes. Like every government asks their populace what atrocities they’d like to commit. I hate an argument by hypocrisy, but your statement is stupid. The majority of Americans want nothing to do with this, if they even have the knowledge of how any of this economic stuff works…just the usual stupid 30% brainless sycophants.
You think we actually vote on it? Both parties bomb the shit out of other countries
Mockheed Lartin is loving this.
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.
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.
What would conservatives/regressives be doing if they weren’t wasting all our money on things that don’t benefit Americans?
It’s almost like we should be voting for the other side that’s proven to be better regarding our tax dollars and economy as a whole. But I guess we could keep voting for the side that’s openly bigoted and really, really bad at managing money. You know, for the lols.
they are spending it to fund israels wars, and at the behest of israel/aipac/ and thier backers. and it also goes to funding right propaganda, the right wing grifters, and supremecist movements.
Being bigoted is a feature for the regressives.
No they haven’t. This is propaganda 101. Do you REALLY think they’re advertising their actual supply and production capacity?
These types of lies were the backbone of the Russia strategy, let the Russians advance, deplete themselves while we ramp up our production, then they not only won’t be able to defend their gains but they’ll have to retreat.
All the while having provoked them so we can use Ukraine as a bulwark and voluntary cannon fodder. Wadn’t us, it’s them!
Don’t fall for it, these people are trained killers and do it for a living. They know what they’re doing and they’re running out of missiles like the US is running out of active shooters.
What do you think the goal of this propaganda would be? If it’s not true, and enemies of the US believe it is, that they attack isolated US bases on in other nations? To what benefit?
The scientists and experts in most things throughout most of the US government that had the spine and integrity to stand up to blatant bullshit, lies, and crimes were either fired or resigned. That includes high ranking military who would refuse illegal orders. What’s left is a mountain of the least capable and most corrupt willing to bend the knee and kiss the ass.
You genuinely think if Trump kept insisting on something this stupid they would refuse his orders? Or that Trump isn’t stupid enough to insist? Or that he takes heed to wise counsel?
No I think this is true. Some “defense industry” people play magic at my LGS and they’ve been talking about this obliquely.
Your friends are complicit in war crimes.
Literally never said they were my friends. But thanks for assuming my life and moralizing my choices.
Capitalism compromises national security.
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.
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.
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
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
