Articles like that are completely retarded man. You seriously think Iran has ran out of missiles in 72 hours?! A Country with a population of 92,000,0000, runs out of missiles in less than FOUR DAYS? Because a think tank says they are “slowing down” in missile barrages? The think tank has NO IDEA on Irans Military doctrine or what it plans on doing.
Did you read the article? That's a titillating headline, but it doesn't suggest they're already "out".
The figures it cites are consistent with what I recalled off the top of my head from October 2024. Earlier in the thread, I recalled that it was speculated by military onlookers, including non-Israeli sources, that Iran had exhausted 10% of its missile reserves in the October 2024 attack.
I mistakenly thought their initial salvo in October 2024 included 300-400 missiles, and 700 total fired overall, but I threw out some searches, and it appears that was much too high, as most reports at the time indicate it was two salvos including a total of ~200 missiles (Wiki itself cites this figure). My mistake was probably that I was recollecting total "projectiles" as that includes drones, and many reports will cite that number instead of specifically missiles. However, the 10% figure was an accurate recollection.
Because his Yahoo articles puts the total believed stockpile of Iran at 2,000 missiles before this current conflict began (as gauged by the US itself who I think most of the world accepts will pin a better estimate than anyone else outside Iran except perhaps Israel, but I'm sure you wouldn't accept their official estimates).
So the math lines up. The 200 missiles used then would be subtracted from the current estimate, but 200 missiles at the time would have exhausted ~10% of their stockpile (200 of 2,200 overall, let's say).
If they had 2,000 missiles before the current conflict, and they've now used an estimated 160-280 missiles, then they will have exhausted 8%-14% of the total missiles they possess. But, as the article points out, we don't know how many missiles Israel destroyed. They wiped out tons of infrastructure in their first few strikes; this doesn't just include missile depots themselves, but more importantly, facilities Iran requires for the ability to
deliver whatever missiles it still possesses.
The article observes a rapidly decelerating rate of volume by Iran in these missile attacks. They wildly missed their pre-planned 1,000 missile reprisal target. It suggests a crippled ability to respond.
