> It could take the US military 3 years to restock its missile defenses

Experts say it will take years for the U.S. military to replenish the Patriot and Terminal High Altitude Area Defense missiles that it has used for the Iran war.

Since the war with Iran began in February, U.S. forces in the Middle East have burned through their supply of ground-based air defense missiles to fend off Iranian attacks.

Now the U.S. military could need about three years — and possibly longer — to restock its inventory of Patriot and Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, or THAAD, missiles to pre-war levels, experts told Task & Purpose.

The U.S. military may have fired up to 67% of its Patriot missiles and as many as 48% of its THAAD interceptors since the Iran war began, according to a recent analysis from the Center for Strategic and International Studies, or CSIS, a think tank in Washington, D.C.

“Diminished stockpiles may force the United States and its coalition partners to take more risks with interceptions,” the CSIS analysis says. “There are no good alternatives to Patriot and THAAD for ballistic missile defense. Navy ships, with Standard Missiles that can intercept such threats, generally are too far away.”

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