Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Dan Caine admitted in a closed door meeting with U.S. lawmakers Tuesday that Iran’s Shahed attack drones have become a bigger problem than initially predicted, reported CNN.
One source told CNN that the U.S. has been “burning” through long-range precision-guided missiles over the last four days.
But U.S. requests for more interceptors have not yet been fulfilled.
Arizona Senator Mark Kelly, a prominent member on the Senate Armed Services Committee, emerged from the meeting with Hegseth and Caine with a cold message: “We do not have an unlimited supply.”
Military officials have stressed since Sunday that fighting Iran has already drastically depleted America’s missile defense systems.
In the weeks leading up to the explosive hostilities, Caine—Trump’s top military advisor—warned the White House against such an attack, arguing that it could entangle America in a prolonged conflict. That is turning out to be true. The White House has thus far offered several possible timelines for the conflict, refusing to stick to just one.
Meanwhile, Hegseth hasn’t informed the public of any such lapse in America’s defense systems. Instead, he suggested to reporters at the Pentagon Wednesday morning that the conflict was continuing without a hitch.
Although he did let a clue about munitions stockpiles slip: Hegseth announced the military would begin using gravity bombs, “which we have a nearly unlimited stockpile.”
Robert Pape, a professor of political science at the University of Chicago, warned on X that “this means we are running out of precision munitions.”
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