{"id":21957,"date":"2026-03-30T13:17:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T13:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=21957"},"modified":"2026-03-30T13:17:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T13:17:17","slug":"us-is-running-out-of-ammo-against-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=21957","title":{"rendered":"US is Running Out of Ammo Against Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The US, Gulf states, and Israel are quickly running out of missile and drone interceptors.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The US also used over 25% of their long-range Tomahawks, possibly 45% of their JASSMs, and over 25% of their ATACMS.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By mid-May, the US could be out of many of these weapons.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The US has failed to build sufficient manufacturing capability. It will take many years to replace these munitions.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The US will have to use dumber bombs and take more hits on the defense if the war goes on.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"US is Running Out of Ammo Against Iran\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0234zEi1AG4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US, Gulf states, and Israel are quickly running out of missile and drone interceptors. <\/p>\n<p>The US also used over 25% of their long-range Tomahawks, possibly 45% of their JASSMs, and over 25% of their ATACMS. <\/p>\n<p>By mid-May, the US could be out of many of these weapons. <\/p>\n<p>The US has failed to build sufficient manufacturing capability. It will take many years to replace these munitions. <\/p>\n<p>The US will have to use dumber bombs and take more hits on the defense if the war goes on. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0234zEi1AG4<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1900,552,221,272,355,1875,797,314,156,377,391,259,338,170,619,158,1055],"class_list":["post-21957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-ammo","tag-conflict","tag-donald-trump","tag-foreign-affairs","tag-foreign-policy","tag-industrial-policy","tag-industry","tag-international-relations","tag-iran","tag-manufacturing","tag-middle-east","tag-military","tag-missiles","tag-trump","tag-united-states","tag-war","tag-weapons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21957"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21959,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21957\/revisions\/21959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}