"The United States Has Half Its Stealth Missiles Left for the Iran War" ... Fears of a Military Gap on the Korean Peninsula

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[Financial News] As the United States continues its prolonged war with Iran, it has consumed large quantities of advanced missiles and other key weapons. As a result, its stockpile of stealth missiles has fallen to about half of what it was before the war began. The decline has raised concerns that U.S. military influence could weaken in the Indo-Pacific and other regions.
According to a report by The New York Times (NYT) on the 23rd local time, the U.S. military has used more than 1,100 Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile-Extended Range (JASSM-ER) missiles in the war against Iran. Its remaining stockpile is estimated at only 1,500. With a range of about 1,000 kilometers and a unit price of roughly $1.1 million, the JASSM-ER is a strategic weapon developed by the United States in preparation for a conflict with China.
The U.S. military has also fired more than 1,000 Tomahawk cruise missiles, each costing as much as $3.6 million.
As missile and bomb stockpiles in the Middle East have been severely depleted by the war with Iran, the U.S. military is also said to have urgently transferred weapons previously deployed in Asia and Europe to the Middle East.
Along with the depletion of weapons, the financial burden on the United States is also growing rapidly. Two independent U.S. think tanks said in a report released in early April that cumulative U.S. war costs had reached between $28 billion and $35 billion at the time, or as much as 52 trillion won. The average daily cost of the war is estimated at nearly $1 billion.
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security@fnnews.com Park Kyung-ho Reporter