Posted on 04/18/2026 11:09:08 PM PDT by NoLibZone
US intelligence assessments have suggested that Iran likely still has access to around 70 percent of its pre-war ballistic missile stockpiles, and around 60 percent of its missile launchers, The New York Times reports.
It also still retains around 40% of its drone arsenal, the report says, citing US intelligence and military officials.
According to the Times, when a two-week ceasefire came into effect between Iran and the US on April 8, Tehran had access to around half of its ballistic missile launchers. Since then, the report says it has managed to dig out another 100 launchers from under the ground, bringing the total of operational missile launchers to around 60% of the pre-war total.
Along with the launchers, the report says Iran is also working to dig out any missile stocks that became buried under the rubble of the US and Israeli strikes. Once complete, the US intelligence officials believe Tehran will have missile stockpiles amounting to around 70% of its pre-war stockpiles.
They’ve been preparing for war for 47 years, so it may very well be true.
It’s one thing to have those missiles, it’s another thing to be able to access them. They may not be able to access many of them.
Hopefully the US and Israel have used the time productively to locate most of them.
Sounds lame.
Otherwise, operators need to be inserted.
I not trust commie NYTimes.
While your old house cat is laying on the porch feigning sleep, it’s cataloging the mice’s movements. Then when the urge hits it knows where to go. I doubt our people in uniform have been in REM sleep. IMO
Yawn!
Regards,
China is always in the market for scrap metal.
With all the missiles Iran has been shooting, at everything and everybody, how can they have this much of their stockpile left? Are we and the Israelis unable to hit them on our raids?
I’ll bet they don’t fall back and regroup. Unless it’s underground. The skies have eyes. You get what ever you dig up you better move it. The way they are going, targets are being cataloged.
They remind me of WW2 Japan. Tunnels everywhere
“US intelligence officials”
Names please.
Iran has pumped ALL of its resources into missiles, drones and nuclear development since 1979. Of course they have stockpiles upon stockpiles. THAT is why and agreement with them will be flawed AND dangerous. One cannot negotiate with a dog that has rabies, foaming at the Islamic mouth.
They must REALLY be decimated, brough to their knees and totally defeated. Anything short of this is a war in a few months, years again.
Y’all miss a very important point.
We possibly, mistakenly, demonstrated
what we can do militarily.
We stopped on our choice to be
compassionate or to not reveal
What we can really accomplish,
when we aren’t throttled by Democrat
party politics.
Sit back and see what happens.
It’s one thing to have those missiles, it’s another thing to be able to access them. They may not be able to access many of them.
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Another factor to consider, trained technicians that know what to do with the missiles. They also have a limited number of rocket launchers. They may have a stockpile of missiles and rockets but they have a limited number of people that know how to set them up and fire, as well as limited number of launchers.
Think about it, if this story is true or not, would you put it past the NY Times or some other MSM media to publish a story using anonymous sources in the intelligence community saying that the war in Iran has been a total waste of time and money.
Is it possible the story is true, absolutely it could be true, it’s more likely it’s a made-up story like the dozens of other stories about the Trump administration that turned out to be totally made up.
People talk in percentages when the actual numbers don’t sound impressive enough. Deepstate will try to do anything they can to make Trump look ineffective. All this bullshit laser accurate knowledge of hard numbers.
70% OF WHAT?
Reports that China has flown in several cargo planes. Do you think, that we and the Israelis can see this, and can watch where these weapon systems are going? Sounds like it’s time to blast the hell out them again, but I think Trump is waiting for them to officially attack us before all hell breaks loose. I can’t imagine what he will do if, one, just one serviceman is killed during this socalled cease fire.
The article only talks “percentages”.
Not numbers...
this cannot be true but we must finish disarming the rabid iranian dictators (and stop playing their “negotiations” game its rigged against us and only makes us look foolish falling for it over and over and over again}
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