The US Has Burned Through “Virtually All” of Its Long-Range Precision Missiles Fighting Iran, and Each One Costs More Than $1 Million
by Jerome London · Thought CatalogUpdated 16 minutes ago, August 5, 2026
The United States has depleted nearly its entire supply of long-range precision missiles during its fight with Iran, and replacing them won’t come cheap.
The US has burned through “virtually all” of its long-range precision missiles fighting Iran, and each one costs more than $1 million.
The stockpile took five months of war with Iran to drain, and now the Army may not have enough left to deter Russia or China.
Rebuilding it means outrunning a fight that hasn’t stopped.
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