>>1496734
Nice article. Too bad nobody can fucking read it, jackass.

Post a paywall free link please.

>>1496737
>Post a paywall free link please.
Got it
https://archive.is/20260313044607/https://www.ft.com/content/14713f6f-a1a6-4477-bd10-d3780fbc8ab5

>Tomahawks, subsonic cruise missiles with a 1,000lb warhead, are manufactured by US weapons maker RTX at a cost of $3.6mn each.
The US military has bought only 322 of the missiles in the past five years, including the 57 the navy has earmarked for fiscal year 2026 at a cost of $206.6mn. It stands to replenish just a fraction of what it has probably used in recent days.
>The US also used at least 124 of the missiles to target Houthi militants in Yemen and Iran’s nuclear facilities in 2024 and 2025. Washington used more than two dozen of the missiles in its attack on the regime’s facility at Isfahan, General Dan Caine, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, said last June.
> The Center for International and Strategic Studies estimated the US used 168 Tomahawks in the first 100 hours of the war that started on February 28.
“It’s a lot. And it will take years to replace,” said one US lawmaker of the Tomahawks, as well as US reserves of Thaad interceptors and Patriot missiles, critical air defences against the barrage of missiles and drones that Iran has unleashed on US and allied assets in the Middle East since the start of the war.
The US is spending “many billions” on a war that is proving deeply unpopular with Americans, Ron Wyden, the top Democrat on the Senate financial services committee, said on Thursday.
The cost of it “goes up practically as we talk”, he said. “It’s an astronomical sum.”

>>1496751
Crazy how much they spent attacking the Houthis only to then run away and allow the Houthis to keep attacking Israel and Israeli shipping

Perfect time for China to invade Taiwan.

>>1496753
They don’t need to. You should look at Korea first, they’re still at war

>>1496766
US has left south korea hanging, they dismantled THAADS there to use them in Israel

>>1496752
Kinda like that 10 years they spent in Afghanistan fighting the Taliban before finally giving up and letting them stay in power. For all it's big guns and fancy toys, the US really isn't very effective.

On a related note, of the hypersonic missiles Iran has fired so far most of them got through and they haven't uet used any of their actual big ones. It's fun to watch from the sidelines here.

>>1496771
>For all it's big guns and fancy toys, the US really isn't very effective.
NTA, our military is very effective at blowing shit up. We're not effective at all at nation building. The Taliban were kicked out of the country and had to go into hiding in Pakistan (who they're now at war with), and we weren't allowed to go into the nation of our "ally" to burn the rest of them out because politics. So when we had enough 20 years ago and wanted to pull out, the Taliban came out of hiding and took over the entire country in a short timeframe like we knew they would. We knew the government would fold like a lawn chair when we left as far back as the Bush years, yet we were still ordered to build shit for them (at one point during Obama's term the US Military was ordered to spend $1 million EACH DAY building anything... this is how we ended up with million dollar ice cream shops in Mazar-i-Sharif).

tl;dr our military is effective, our government is not.

>>1496790
nta, consider the military to be a tool and what you’re saying is the US military is a good tool that isn’t used properly.
Anyway, I think that’s on topic itt the US leadership failing to use their military properly again, basically wasting the potential and trying to get it to do things it’s not designed for nor suited to

>>1496734
Back in my day we pasted the article text because we weren't clickfarming faggots

The Trump administration has burned through “years” of critical munitions since the start of the war with Iran, said three people familiar with the matter, fuelling concerns about the rising cost of the conflict and the US’s ability to replenish its stockpiles.
The rapid depletion of weaponry included advanced long-range Tomahawk missiles, the people said.
It is a “massive expenditure of Tomahawks”, said one person familiar with the US military’s use of munitions. “The navy will be feeling this expenditure for several years.”
The rising costs will pile pressure on Donald Trump as the war has brought a critical maritime trade corridor to a halt and sent oil prices above $100 a barrel. In a midterm election year, the war is also increasingly unpopular with American voters who face soaring petrol prices and are questioning whether the president has signed the country up for another prolonged conflict in the Middle East.
The Pentagon is expected to submit a formal request to the White House and Congress in the coming days for as much as $50bn in additional spending for the military. The supplemental funding request will set the stage for what is likely to be a fierce funding battle on Capitol Hill that could lay bare growing unease among lawmakers about the administration’s actions.
Lisa Murkowski, a Republican on the Senate appropriations committee charged with approving the federal budget, has warned lawmakers will chafe at any expectation from the White House of a blank cheque.
The Pentagon must “engage” Congress, she said on Thursday.

“You’ve got to be able to provide us with information, as requested, justification,” she said. “Don’t just take for granted that the Congress’s role is basically just to write the cheque.”
Any supplemental bill to fund the war in Iran could face a battle in the House of Representatives and the Senate.
Republicans control the House by a razor-thin margin and fiscal conservatives are likely to recoil at any big outlay of taxpayer money, especially if the White House tries to attach additional public spending such as tariff relief for farmers to a military funding package.
Democratic lawmakers, who have criticised the Iran war as illegal because Trump did not seek congressional approval, are also likely to balk at allocating more money for the Pentagon.
Former Republican Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell on Thursday urged his colleagues “who oppose the president’s use of force against Iran” to approve the military’s supplemental budget request all the same, arguing that it presents an “overdue opportunity to invest in urgent and strategic defence priorities”.
“Weakness invites challenge,” McConnell, a frequent critic of Trump in his second term, said on the Senate floor. “But our adversaries have sought to weaken and undermine America regardless of who the commander-in-chief is.”
Pentagon officials earlier this week told senators that the war had cost more than $11bn in the first six days of strikes. The costs were overwhelmingly for munitions.
“The rounds we’re firing — Patriot rounds, Thaad rounds...these weapon systems, each round is millions of dollars,” Democratic senator and Air Force veteran Mark Kelly told MS Now. Meanwhile, the Iranians are “firing cheap drones”, he said, referring to the Shaheds that US intelligence officials say Iran is able to produce quickly for $30,000 a piece.

“The math on this doesn’t work,” Kelly added.
The military is expected to brief Congress on munitions expended in the coming days, a person familiar with the matter said.
US officials have expressed growing concerns in recent years that the use of critical munitions could outpace their production, particularly if the US is drawn into conflicts with adversaries such as Russia or China. This could leave US stockpiles dangerously depleted and the US military less ready to confront future wars.
Murkowski recalled US administrations explaining to Ukraine and European partners in recent years that “we would do more” to help supply them, “but we don’t have the stockpiles”.
“With the level of inventory that [US operations in Iran are] going through on a daily basis, I think we all have reason to ask good questions about how we are doing on munitions,” Murkowski added.
US defence secretary Pete Hegseth last week said: “We’ve got no shortage of munitions. Our stockpiles of defensive and offensive weapons allow us to sustain this campaign as long as we need to.”
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt on Thursday said: “The US military has more than enough munitions, ammo and weapons stockpiles to achieve the goals of Operation Epic Fury laid out by President Trump and beyond.”
“Nevertheless, President Trump has always been intensely focused on strengthening our armed forces and he will continue to call on defence contractors to more speedily build American-made weapons, which are the best in the world.”
Tomahawks, subsonic cruise missiles with a 1,000lb warhead, are manufactured by US weapons maker RTX at a cost of $3.6mn each.
The US military has bought only 322 of the missiles in the past five years, including the 57 the navy has earmarked for fiscal year 2026 at a cost of $206.6mn. It stands to replenish just a fraction of what it has probably used in recent days.

The US also used at least 124 of the missiles to target Houthi militants in Yemen and Iran’s nuclear facilities in 2024 and 2025. Washington used more than two dozen of the missiles in its attack on the regime’s facility at Isfahan, General Dan Caine, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, said last June.
The Center for International and Strategic Studies estimated the US used 168 Tomahawks in the first 100 hours of the war that started on February 28.
“It’s a lot. And it will take years to replace,” said one US lawmaker of the Tomahawks, as well as US reserves of Thaad interceptors and Patriot missiles, critical air defences against the barrage of missiles and drones that Iran has unleashed on US and allied assets in the Middle East since the start of the war.
The US is spending “many billions” on a war that is proving deeply unpopular with Americans, Ron Wyden, the top Democrat on the Senate financial services committee, said on Thursday.
The cost of it “goes up practically as we talk”, he said. “It’s an astronomical sum.”

>>1496804
>>1496804
>>1496805
>>1496806
>>1496807
You are a true /news/man, thank you.
>The military is expected to brief Congress on munitions expended in the coming days, a person familiar with the matter said.
Oh good that's going to solve everything! /s

Fake news. President Trump said we have lots of time and infinite ammunition. I believe him over the lying left.

>>1496734
The US is good at surgical, naval and air
The cracks have always started to show the second a drawn out war that they can't bomb their way out of starts.
The second troops touch on the ground, it'll only get worse

>>1496815
What I am guessing is that they probably accounted for the targets and thought "Okay no way Orange Idiot seriously tries to push for this war to go on long enough for the strait to close" and then the strait closed.

lmfaoooooooooooooo KEKAROOOOOO
I wonder if even the Military was caught off-guard by the fact Trump decided to invade Iran

>>1496850
This is why war should only be declared by congress after a debate and etc. What’s happening is the Emperor has lost his mind and shouldn’t ever have the power to start a war

>>1496795

>nta, consider the military to be a tool and what you’re saying is the US military is a good tool that isn’t used properly.

nothing this retarded administration does is used properly.
The military didn't just pop into existence one day, it was the end result of over 100 years of intense industrial, tactical, and strategic engineering by people way too smart to become politicians. And almost always, it gets misused by politicians do something strategically very fucking dumb.

>THIS'LL TOTALLY HURT THE SOVIET RUSSIA *stabs self in balls*
What that yellowtext describes is exactly how we've been using it the last 80 of those years. When in reality, it could have been used to maintain the largest and most comprehensive global trade operation imaginable and make everybody prosperous. Yet here we are bombing brown people again. In a few years we'll be bombing a different set of brown people.

>>1496850
>and then the strait closed
[citation needed]

>>1496862
This. Check the straits, all ships are passing easily and virtually unharassed. Libcucks don't like it but the fact is Iran got battered and Trump won.

>>1496862
>>1496866
The only ships that pass through are the ones heading to China. At most a handful get through per day even among those when normal operations would be like 50-60+ per day. It's effectively closed for all intents and purposes that matter.

>>1496869
>The only ships that pass through are the ones heading to China.
>checks traffic
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ciG0FvIUxKM

>>1496866
>all ships are passing easily and virtually unharassed.
no they aren't lmao. They literally set a few on fire just the other day. The most they've been able to get through in a day since the blockade started is literally 7 ships total, which is about 1/10th of what standard operations are. This is delusional

>>1496870
>>checks traffic
ok
>https://hormuzstraitmonitor.com/
>Transits (24h)
>3 ships
>5% of 60/day normal

>>1496871
Fake news.

>>1496873
>Ignore your eyes
>Ignore your ears
>Ignore the oil price index
>Everything is fine and nothing hurts

>>1496872
>https://www.marinetraffic.com
>The only ships that pass through are the ones heading to China.
>ship going to Brazil
>ship going to Kuwait
>ship going to UAE
>ship going to Bangladesh
>ship going to India
>ship going to Rotterdam
>ship going to Japan
Why the fuck you lying (For real)
Why you always lying(Why)
Mmmmm oh my god, stop fucking lying (Why you lying)
Always lying to me (Too much)
You lying so much (You know)
You're making it hard for me (Baby, you don't)

>>1496872
websites confirmed owned by Soros.

>>1496845
Gotta buy more overpriced, super special equipment. Why spend a few thousand for a drone when you can spend millions for missiles? What's the point of doing anything in America if some billionaire isn't making bank from it?

>>1496862
>>1496866
>>1496875
>>1496876
uh huh..
https://www.hormuztracker.com/
https://www.maritimenews.com/port-operations/middle-east-strait-closure-shipping-disruption

>All shipping agencies have pulled out
>All INSURANCE has pulled out
>9/10 industrial shipping conglomerates are out, only exception being China because they will collapse if it doesn't happen
>No insurance means no one will come to rescue any sailors if they happen to hit a mine
>All of Europe is out
>Norway Maritime authority has issued a do-not-enter notice for all ships flagged in the straight
>Trump is screaming on Truth social for ships to go through (they aren't)
>He's not insuring them himself
am I just not supposed to believe Mariners at this point because some chuds on 4chan are trying to turn down accepting their "Fell for it again" awards?

Not even Bibi or Daddy believe this shit or they would rush to insure shipping in an instant, which they aren't. They know it's dangerous.

>>1496870
>Youtube short
Oh ok, that totally takes precedence over the Maritime authority for Hormuz. Whew. Do you have a tiktok or a truth social post next?

>>1496875
got any cool raps about losing the midterms in a blue wave and being impeached? I think you're going to need that one soon

>>1496875
>Can't read the chart
Also rich to be accused of lying by the guy claiming the strait has people coming and going as usual with zero issues when in reality it's operating at 1/10th the rate at best with multiple reported attacks.

The narrative from Hegseth and Caine is that the Strait is open for shipping, the only problem is that Iran is attacking the ships.
These people have such amazingly smooth brains.

>>1496908
>The narrative from Hegseth and Caine is that the Strait is open for shipping, the only problem is that Iran is attacking the ships.
lol
Same shit MIGAtards are saying in this thread.

>>1496909
Just call them MAGAs.

>>1496913
The A assumes they fight for America. Pretty sure nobody right now ran on a platform of starting shit with Iran for the benefit of Israel. MIGA fits them to a T.

>>1496923
They didn’t, but it was obvious they would. Nothing Trump has done is the least bit surprising, and everyone sensible was warning them about it for literal years.
This is MAGA. This is what it always was. Don’t give them the out of a MIGA rebranding just because they fell for the lies, own the fucking mistake.

>>1496908
>If you just ignore the thing making the Strait closed, it's open
lmao

>>1496926
And what, pray tell, is "making" the strait closed when all proof indicates it's open

>>1496933
>is "making" the strait closed
Bombs, mines, drones.
>when all proof indicates it's open
>>1496891

>>1496940
>Random website has more validity than the words of the American President and Secretary of War.

That website is confirmed linked to the DNC btw.

>>1496943
Yes.

>>1496891
>Is the Strait of Hormuz Open?
>NO
>clearly see ships moving through the Strait of Hormuz
I'm confused. Did leftists come up with a new meaning for the word "open"?

>>1496948
pathetic fails to describe how despondent your lies are becoming

>>1496949
Nta but to be fair you deserve it.

>>1496948
>Four ships getting through at most per day, and even those are only the ones Iran allows through on their own
>"Guys it's basically open"
Bro just give it up and move on to the next talking point

>>1496924
A lot of them are doomsday cultist who want an apocalyptic war to break out, either because they think they can force Christ to return or because they're nihilistic/suicidal and think it'd piss off the libs and be hilarious.

>>1496963
Those are cryptojews, like Evangelicals.
Explained in an earlier post.

>>1496963
Oh wait some liggeral faggot is going full schizshit over this. That was actually another thread

>>1496954
Sorry, meant for >>1496948

>>1496961
>Bro just give it up and move on to the next talking point
Okay, let's talk about your other bullshit lie.
>only exception being China
Can you explain why non-Chinese ships are moving through there? Or did China move to Brazil without anyone telling me?

>>1496967
Nice try, fag.

>>1496968
god you're esl

>>1496968
You're really trying to argue the Strait operating at 5% capacity with the only ones getting through being either permitted by Iran or shadow fleet ones is it being completely open and business as usual lmao. And you still can't fucking read your own site.

>>1496981
>the chinese are the only one's going through
>well not really

>>1496982
>I still cannot read my own website
Here's a story pointing out the exact same shit you claim I'm "lying" about
>https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/11/iran-ships-oil-china-strait-hormuz-closure-.html

>>1496790
>$1 million EACH DAY
Does that sound like a lot to you? That can be done with a single fucking highway project.

>>1496983
And where in this link does it say that only Chinese ships are moving through the strait? I'm not seeing it. Can you quote the text from this article?

>>1496987
>Iran has sent at least 11.7 million barrels of crude oil through the Strait of Hormuz since the war began on Feb. 28, all of which were headed to China, Samir Madani, co-founder of TankerTrackers.com, told CNBC on Tuesday.
>Iran exported 2.16 mbd in February, the highest level since July 2018, according to Kpler’s Soe, and they were all destined for China, as Beijing amassed reserves to cushion the potential energy supply risk.

>>1496993
LMAO wow... retard... Just because Iran is trading with China... does not mean that ALLLLLLLLL of the ships moving through the strait are going to China.

I know it's hard to believe, but there are some ships moving through the Strait of Hormuz that are not owned by Iran.

>>1496987
I just read it and it doesn't. It literally says Iran Is shipping oil to China and he's claiming that there are no tankers moving thru there except irans.


If that were true why wouldn't the US just seize Iranian oil tankers like they did with Venezuela

>>1496737
https://www.archivebuttons.com/ this too.

>>1496790
>tl;dr our military is effective, our government is not.

Because your government still seems to think that showing up in someone else's country, killing civilians and telling them that the US has the authority to determine who runs the government is going to be effective.

>>1497015
That implies this tactic was ever effective.

>>1497018
Indeed, the tactic has never been effective but the US government still has in their head this notion that the whole world desperately wants to be like America.

>>1497023
I think the world wants freedom and democracy, that's a pretty universal desire, but they don't necessarily want the American version. Especially after America just flew in and leveled their house.

>>1497024
Yes because American "democracy" is a total farce that other countries are far better at recognizing than it's own citizens. Most countries want to hold their own elections and have self determination, but any time they elect someone the US doesn't like, that person gets murderd by the CIA and replaced with a puppet no one likes and everything goes to chaos. There's not a single nation on earth that wants their only two choices for who's in charge to be Donald Trump of Kamala Harris.

>>1497025
All correct, and I say that as an American. I'm so sick of our shit.

>>1496943
People tend to not believe known liars such as Trump and his cronies

>>1497024
>I think the world wants freedom and democracy
US Army invades their nation, Overthrow the dictatorial government and installs democratic government and create instability in their nation

>>1496873
>Fake news.
kek

>>1496736
>Too bad nobody can fucking read it, jackass.
this news article from ft is locked behind a paywall subscription, read here at >>1496743 or >>1496804 >>1496805 >>1496806 >>1496807

1496835
>I believe him
You cannot spell 'Believe' without the word Lie
>I believe him
Fake opinion

>>1497000
>I know it's hard to believe, but there are some ships moving through the Strait of Hormuz that are not owned by Iran.
Proof?

>>1497025
>that person gets murderd by the CIA and replaced with a puppet no one likes and everything goes to chaos
Examples in the last 25 years?

>>1496771
>Muh hypersonics
Shut the FUCK up. They're basic-bitch ballistic missiles that are barely more advanced than the goddamn V-2 in terms of speed and accuracy.

>>1496771
>On a related note, of the hypersonic missiles Iran has fired so far
>hypersonic
Oh boy, here we go.

>>1496891
Everything you just said was confirmed fake news. Why are you lying so hard? Holy fuck the leftist seething over Trump is so hilarious but also very sad how delusional it makes you people. The lyin' left really can't help itself. You are fundamentally dishonest people

>>1497153
>Everything you just said was confirmed fake news.
what is this cope lmao. You know we can literally see basically no one is going through the strait? The gas price spike didn't come out of nowhere

>>1497154
>we can literally see

You aren't literally seeing shit. You're not at the strait observing ships, youve seen nothing with your own two eyes. What you're seeing is a shitty website that is a confirmed anti-Trump operation feeding you fake news. You're a sheep who believes whatever the Internet tells him. The US president and Secretary of War have infinite times more credibility than your little website.

>>1497189
>I only trust Hegseth's tiktok videos
lmao not even him but this is pathetic

>>1497189
No, they don't. Especially not this president, especially not this secretary of """war."""
The strait is closed. Everyone agreed, don't fight about it. Reality doesn't care about your cope.

>>1496734
>Many Countries, especially those who are affected by Iran’s attempted closure of the Hormuz Strait, will be sending War Ships, in conjunction with the United States of America, to keep the Strait open and safe. We have already destroyed 100% of Iran’s Military capability, but it’s easy for them to send a drone or two, drop a mine, or deliver a close range missile somewhere along, or in, this Waterway, no matter how badly defeated they are. Hopefully China, France, Japan, South Korea, the UK, and others, that are affected by this artificial constraint, will send Ships to the area so that the Hormuz Strait will no longer be a threat by a Nation that has been totally decapitated. In the meantime, the United States will be bombing the hell out of the shoreline, and continually shooting Iranian Boats and Ships out of the water. One way or the other, we will soon get the Hormuz Strait OPEN, SAFE, and FREE! President DONALD J. TRUMP

Don't matter. Confirmed by the president himself that Iran is totally depleted.

WARN THEM ONCE

WARN THEM TWICE

THEN NUKE THEM

>>1497194
You trust trump? And I'm not asking if you trust him to do a good job I'm just asking you trust that he tells the truth? Still? After everything he's lied to us about?

Why?

>>1497106
>>1497128
Whatever you want to call them, the low wield missiles of that sort have been getting through Isreal's iron dome. Just pointing out that though the US has used a lot of it's stockpile of tomahawks and the like, Iran has yet to actually launch any of it's really big missiles. Trump is on TV telling everyone that they've destroyed all of Iran's ability to retaliate, meanwhile Iran hasn't actually used any of it's big weapons yet.

Don't take this as an endorsement of Iran btw. Iran is led by a terrible religious regime and Islam is just as much a bunch bullshit lies as Christianity and Judaism and everything about this shit show is retarded and terrible. But Trump claiming victory at this point is a little premature to put it mildly....

https://youtu.be/np_5BHmaSI4?si=LkZ-Z4Xf7BvfNdJ2

>>1497194
>From the same guy who said the Strait is totally safe (if you ignore the bombs and mines)
Yeah Trump's word is worth less than nothing at this point, especially on the topic of Iran.