While more than 90 percent of Iranian missiles and drones have been intercepted by the United States, Israel, and allied forces, experts are reportedly warning that the cost of defense is quietly draining allied stockpiles across the region. The vast majority of Iranian projectiles have been intercepted during the war, according to a report by the Jewish Institute for National Security of America (JINSA), obtained by Fox News.
However, the analysis warns that beneath that success exists a growing imbalance that could affect the next phase of the conflict, citing Iran’s least expensive weapons as the most troublesome in the war, draining high-cost U.S. and Israeli interceptors. “More than 9,000 enemy targets have been struck to date,” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said during a press briefing on Wednesday. “Iran’s ballistic missile attacks and drone attacks are down by roughly 90 percent.” Leavitt added that U.S. forces have also destroyed more than 140 Iranian naval vessels, including nearly 50 mine layers. While a surge of U.S. assets before the war helped absorb Iran’s opening artillery and continues executing high interception rates, Ari Cicurel, associate director of foreign policy at JINSA, told Fox News that focusing only on the percentage of interceptions fails to look at the bigger picture.
