Israel informed the US this week that it is running critically low on ballistic missile interceptors as the conflict with Iran rages on, US officials told Semafor.
Israel had reportedly entered the current war already low on interceptors that were fired during last summer’s conflict with Iran. Israel’s long-range defense system has strained under Iran’s attacks; CNN reported that Iran was adding cluster munitions to its missiles, which may exacerbate the depletion of the stock.
The US has been aware of Israel’s low capacity for months, one US official said: “It’s something we expected and anticipated.”
This official emphasized to Semafor that the US is not running similarly low on interceptors of its own. That comment comes amid broader concerns about interceptor depletion from a longer military engagement in Iran leaving the US in a poor position.
It’s also unclear whether the US might seek to sell or share any of its own interceptors with Israel, which would pose its own strain on domestic supplies. The US has included missile defense assets in past provisions of military aid to Israel.
“We have all that we need to protect our bases and our personnel in the region and our interests,” the US official said, adding that Israel is “coming up with solutions to address” their shortage.
Israel has other ways to defend against Iranian missiles during the war, including via fighter jets, but the interceptors are among the most effective defensive weapons against long-range fire. Its Iron Dome missile defense system is designed to repel more short-range fire.
President Donald Trump said earlier this month that the US has a “virtually unlimited” munitions stockpile, although analysts have long said US stockpiles are lower than the military would like.
Last June, the US fired over 150 THAAD interceptors during the 12-day war with Iran, the Center for Strategic and International Studies found — believed to be around a quarter of US inventory at the time. The US is also believed to have used around $2.4 billion worth of Patriot interceptors in the first five days of this war, according to some reports.
In January, the Pentagon made moves to begin substantially increasing its production of the THAAD missile defense system. The US official said that the administration has plenty of THAADs and fighter jets, as well as mid-level interceptors.
Chief Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell told Semafor in a statement that the department “has everything it needs to execute any mission at the time and place of” Trump’s choosing.
In a statement after publication of this story, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told Semafor that US stockpiles are “more than enough” to achieve Trump’s goals against Iran “and beyond.” She added that Trump is also always “focused on strengthening our Armed Forces and he will continue to call on defense contractors” to quickly build US-made weapons.
“The United States Military’s accomplishments alongside the Israel Defense Forces speak for themselves — Iranian drone attacks are down 95 percent, ballistic missile attacks are down 90 percent, and the regime’s dismal situation will only get worse,” she said.
The Israel Defense Forces did not immediately respond to requests for comment from Semafor.
I used to think my years of playing starcraft and command and conquer had nothing to do with actual war strategy and was just videogame shit.
Apparently “Expand your production before you attack so you have more facilities to replenish your army” and “Don’t attack a heavily entrenched position unless you have an overwhelming force and clear path to victory” are really important strategies that were lost when E-sports went into MOBAs.
Also TBH “When your enemy has the ability to hide units and delay the victory screen, don’t antagonize them before you win. It’ll make them more likely to do it just to spite you”
Iran please, let me micro a control group of shahed drones I’ll sacrifice my aching wrists for you.
SMH, Trump didn’t even bother to construct additional pylons.
The fundamentals! Probes and pylons.
And scouting too, need to know what your enemy is planning and where they’ll attack from. And knowing when to turtle to build up your forces and resources. US military planners seem like they’re just pure bronze league.
Well, given their opponents of the last 50 years, that’s just where their ELO is at.
As I learn more about actual war strategy, I find more and more that all the differences that I was assured would be there between Starcraft and the real thing were, actually, people being bad at Starcraft. You have to replace practicing your micromanagement with training low-level officers and that’s about it.
I suppose it would be pretty frustrating to have to worry about my units getting too drunk to fly… though dragoons and goliaths weren’t too far off
Sun Tzu being like, ‘don’t waste soldiers on useless attacks,’ ‘don’t make your troops fight looking into the sun,’ or ‘feed your soldiers’ seems really basic yet it’s still lost on the vast majority of armchair generals and a surprising amount of actual generals
What did sun zi say about IDF thirst traps
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Aww did someone get addicted to interceptors manufactured using rare earths that the Chinese control and recently put under strict export controls?
You cant wean someone off interceptors either.
It’s tough, but you have to cut them off. Its the loving move. Interceptor addicts will never stop while you enable them.
Same for oil addicts.
Yup. I’m a drug addict myself so I understand the necessity of harsh punishment and brutal sanctions.
My boss told me I needed to stop showing up high to work or I wasn’t going to have a job. How am I supposed to make it bearable?
I’m lucky that it was only weed at least, so after a couple weeks of headaches I’m just miserable and the back pain is worse again now.I… :(
Also the US economy is about to collapse (again) and won’t be able to keep resupplying them.
Not sure if USA or occupied Palestine

wow, amazing that they have no way to intercept missiles and have taken zero casualties. truly gods chosen people.
at this point a big finger could come down from the clouds and block an iranian missile it wouldn’t make me think the entity is right. We’d just have to kill god
I’m open to god or aliens with advanced enough tech to seem godlike being the final boss we have to fight and we’ll cross that bridge if we have to
strap me to a missile and fire me at the mothership, comrade
Ender has entered the chat.
who would have thought life is a JRPG
I agree.
Just put the production slider on interceptors to full, stupid!
One of the rare-earth belts was accidentally rotated and the loss of supply has cascaded through the entire factory. Probably best to just reload a previous save.
Probably best to just reload a previous save.
you have to play to the bitter endYou have more than one save?
Just send out some IDF conscripts with some diet-coke and menthos bottle rockets.
Won’t stop the Iranian missiles or anything but it’ll be really really funny.
Gonna be some real good videos coming soon once they run out lol.
Another $50bn for Israel!
Israel - Worst
towergenocide defense game everPay to win and only beatable when you choose the weakest enemies; hard enemies burn through your consumables and very imbalanced; can’t even beat hard enemies when playing coop with a friend, what is this; even when boss has no nukes handicap still can’t win; I have groceries to buy and rent to pay, I can’t afford these microtransactions! I’m returning this, REFUND NOW!
But everytime you overextend yourself your ally comes in and does the fighting for you.
So you keep getting yourself into existential trouble, and you can use that to take more and more - once the ally intervenes.
Ah, the ol’ Mussolini Gambit.
Is that where the Israelis learned it from?
Maybe they can throw the money at the missiles
Just need to get a negotiator in there, like this admin is always bragging about. Instead of giving Raytheon $500M for a missile to shoot down a drone maybe they could give the IRGC $250M and keep the drone.
Sounds like a win-win
Isn’t that already what they’re doing?
They’re using contractors as a middleman, but you can’t buy interceptors that don’t exist. I propose loading bales of cash into a catapult
So, less iron dome more paper dome, still doesn’t sound too different.
It’s the least anyone would do for their genocidal friend.
another 50 points for griffindor!
Why would the US govt publicize this info?
more muney time
Having nobody named makes it seem either like:
- it wasn’t actually something the US government wanted shared
- to somehow drive production of more in a way that doesn’t quite make sense to me
to somehow drive production of more in a way that doesn’t quite make sense to me
To boost stock prices of manufacturers who will be expected to simply double their prices now that demand has increased, rather than actually increasing production.
It’s cost-plus pricing baby.
we dont have to control costs because we always make margin 
If they can’t be responsible with their use of interceptors, do they even deserve interceptors?
Its pretty easy to defend your bases when you don’t have to worry about defending the ones already blown up.

Honestly shocked they’re admitting this. The mood in Washington must be abysmal
There must be leaks everywhere at this point.
Propagander to send more money to is
So where, exactly, is that trillion dollar pentagon budget going?
In the pockets of corpos, and insiders doing stock buy backs. And overcharging the US government for the same stuff.
:tommy-shriggly:

Mr Shriggly can do at least 10 pushups, which is pretty impressive when you think about how tiny his hands are. He is also a wicked dancer and can knit.
Uhhhh… I still think I’m missing some context on this one.
just for the little clap, but also because he took out his whole platoon
He also turned one hundred thousand dollars into sixteen thousand dollars through his investments

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Gotta shoot for the stars so you achieve negative losses instead.
he took out his whole platoon
So, one of the good guys, eh?
Incredible. I had no idea he was such a hero. You’re just telling me now.
Truly amazing, innit?
E: I have no clue how I replied here - this was meant as a reply to:
Hoooly fuck there really is a type of nerd for everything.
Still works, though.
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Mr Shriggly can do at least 10 pushups, which is pretty impressive when you think about how tiny his hands are. He is also a wicked dancer and can knit.
What are you quoting from here? lol
I got as far as the first paragraph of achievements before just replying.
Hoooly fuck there really is a type of nerd for everything.






















