Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said Wednesday that more U.S. military assets are arriving in the region for the conflict against Iran.
“Iran's capabilities are evaporating by the hour, while American strength grows fiercer, smarter and utterly dominant,” Hegseth said at the Pentagon alongside Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Dan Caine.
“More bombers and more fighters are arriving just today and now, with complete control of the skies, we will be using 500-pound, 1,000- pound and 2,000 pound GPS and laser-guided precision gravity bombs, of which we have a nearly unlimited stockpile. We used more exquisite standoff munitions at the start, but no longer need to. Our stockpiles of those, as well as Patriots remains extremely strong,” Hegseth said.
“The enemy can no longer shoot the volume of missiles they once did. Not even close. And the chairman will lay out some of those percentages. So our air defenses and that of our allies have plenty of runway. We can sustain this fight easily for as long as we need to,” he added.
Caine said, “Iran's theater ballistic missile shots fired are down 86% from the first day of fighting, with a 23% decrease just in the last 24 hours.”
“And their one-way attack drone shots are down 73% from the opening days. This progress has allowed CENTCOM to establish localized air superiority across the southern flank of the Iranian coast and penetrate their defenses with overwhelming precision and firepower,” Caine added.
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