Pentagon officials tell Reuters that U.S. forces have used nearly all long-range precision missiles in Iran campaign and earlier Operation Epic Fury

The Pentagon has “used up virtually all” of its long-range precision missiles during the course of the Iran war, according to a Reuters report published after a separate earlier heavy U.S.-Israeli campaign referred to as Operation Epic Fury, according to the report’s sources. The account, published Tuesday and carried by Zero Hedge, says military planners and logisticians are weighing the impact of those expenditures on the force’s ability to sustain similar strike campaigns later.

The Reuters report characterizes the information as coming from informed sources and frames it as an internal readiness problem rather than a public procurement announcement. It does not provide an exact inventory count in the Zero Hedge write-up, but it emphasizes the scale of missile consumption, describing it as nearly depleting “precision, long-range” stocks over the two periods.

As described in the report, the concern centers on the timing of future contingency needs. Long-range precision missiles are among the most expensive and operationally constrained munitions in U.S. inventories, and the consumption level described by Reuters points to potential limits on the number of strike packages the military could generate without additional replenishment.

The Reuters reporting also ties the readiness discussion to a broader pattern of sustained demand across multiple theaters. In the same framing, the earlier U.S.-Israeli operation, Operation Epic Fury, is presented as part of the same consumption storyline, with the effect being that the Pentagon’s available inventory has been drawn down across both efforts rather than only during the Iran campaign.

The Pentagon has not been cited in the Zero Hedge summary for issuing a specific public statement about the “virtually all” figure, nor does the provided material include documentation such as a budget transfer, procurement notice, or an inventory report. In the absence of primary Pentagon disclosures in the supplied record, the key operational takeaway in the report remains the sourcing of the claim to “informed sources” and the internal readiness concern described by Reuters.

The practical next steps implied by the reporting, based on the role of missile stock levels in planning, would be whether the Defense Department accelerates replenishment, adjusts future targeting timelines, or recalibrates munitions mix. The reporting described here does not, however, specify any concrete policy change or new formal directive tied directly to the claimed depletion.