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Iran Fired Oldest Cheapest Missiles While US Depleted Cutting-Edge Interceptor Arsenal
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"They're sending their oldest ballistic missiles and the cheapest and the ones that have the closest expiration date first, obviously. So the ones that they have remaining are going to be the ones that were produced more recently and be higher tech."
Ryan Grim noted a massive asymmetry in the missile exchange with Iran: Tehran deployed its oldest, cheapest missiles first while the US and Israel fired millions of dollars worth of advanced interceptors at each one. Iran can produce ballistic missiles faster than America's industrial base can replenish interceptors, and their remaining stockpile consists of newer, more sophisticated weapons.
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