The US Has Burned Through “Virtually All” of Its Long-Range Precision Missiles Fighting Iran, and Each One Costs More Than $1 Million

by · Thought Catalog
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By Jerome London

Updated 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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