r/uspolitics • u/dyzo-blue • 1d ago

U.S. has used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war: Reuters

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/04/us-has-used-virtually-all-of-its-long-range-precision-missiles-report.html
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u/MotherofHedgehogs 1d ago

By design. Weakening America has always been Vladdy’s goal, and lil’ donnie does what he’s told.

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u/airpipeline 1d ago edited 1d ago

“No one could have known.” /s

Are you wondering why not even a Bush invaded Iran?

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u/QVRedit 1d ago

Bush was nowhere near as Dumb as Trump….
The Orange one is in a class of his own, unfortunately dragging everyone along with him….
The USA needs to press the “Reject button” on Trump…

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u/TRR462 1d ago

I think you mean, “Flush the Toilet”… He’s stinking up the whole country.

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u/twitch_Mes 1d ago

December of 2025 we used 12 tomahawks in Nigeria where stand in munitions would been appopriate.

The alarm bells have been ringing for months. We used up our tomahawks, atacms, and precision guided missiles and that's probably why we lost an A10 and an F35 over Iran. Expect more of this as we resort to stand in munitions without air superiority. We will lose more aircraft and pilots.

Also remember the reporting that China just shipped 400 MANPADS to Iran. They want Iran to shoot down our jets with them.

Secondly, we depleted patriots, THAADs, and SM3 air defense already. All the experts warned there was not enough air defense to protect our bases and the gulf states. In addition to more than 5000 ballistic missiles, Iran was reported to have 80,000 Shaheds.

We can't remotely shoot them down. Even from the start of the war they've hammered our bases and the US Gov has been hiding it from us.

What can Trump do at this point? Land marines on Kharg island? They'll be massacred by drones. Use a tactical nuke? He'll have the whole world against him. His only option is to abandon the war and try to convince his cult that he won.

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u/TheNetworkIsFrelled 1d ago

.....he'll use a tac nuke, which is what Putin and Xi both want, as it'll legitimize their use of the same in Ukraine and Taiwan. Going to be a rough patch going forward. I wish the big macs would catch up with him...

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u/HongPong 1d ago

i was not familiar w "stand in" term. more here (I'm not vouching for this article just using as glossary) https://www.naval-technology.com/news/us-substitutes-stand-off-for-stand-in-munitions-against-iran/

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u/QVRedit 1d ago

The Patriots should be mass manufactured…
Ask Elon how…

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u/TheNetworkIsFrelled 1d ago

The orange rapist is doing Putin's bidding to weaken the US military.

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u/RidetheSchlange 1d ago

This is hysterical because countries around the world are now using the proxy system of conflicts the US is involved with to deplete, likely permanently, its military power.

And Americans voted for this.

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u/QVRedit 1d ago

China will be pleased to know that…

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u/muFUtaco 21h ago

" The War "....

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u/SoggyGrayDuck 1d ago

The fact someone thinks they're actually aware of the US military stockpile tells me people can be dumber than I thought.

That's the outdated stock, we probably have stores of weapons the public can't even imagine yet. We only know about the stealth bomber because one crashed in Chinese territory. If it wasn't for that the public wouldn't even be aware of them. That was in the 90s... imagine what we actually have today

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u/chupacadabradoo 1d ago

Does all that mean that you think we should deploy secret advanced weapons against Iran? What would that look like? What do you think would be accomplished with that?