The US’ war on Iran has cost Washington an estimated $33.4 billion, including $22.3 billion spent on weapons and ammunitions, so far, a Pentagon watchdog report has revealed.
The Pentagon’s watchdog said the heavy use of US weapons during the onslaught “has resulted in strategic inventory shortfalls and revealed industrial base bottlenecks for munitions resupply. The report’s assessment also comes as US President Donald Trump has repeatedly played down concerns about America’s weapons inventories. The US defence department also spent $7.4 billion on other costs linked to the war and lost military equipment worth $3.7 billion, according to the report released Monday. The estimate, from February 28 to June 29, does not include the cost of repairing damaged infrastructure. The $22.3 billion spent on munitions accounted for a substantial share of the overall cost of the war. On August 6, Trump said, “The US has massive amounts of ‘munitions,’ especially of certain types.
Iranian strikes have also damaged or destroyed “hundreds of buildings and structures” at US military bases across the Gulf. Iranian strikes caused damage to hundreds of buildings and structures at US bases in the region, according to information provided by US Central Command to the inspector general. In another post on September 9, Trump said the US has “virtually unlimited amounts” of mid- to high-grade ammunition — “far more than we could ever use for this, or for any other War.”
In March, US war secretary Pete Hegseth said the department planned to seek about $200 billion in additional funding for the war and to replenish US weapons and equipment. By July, Hegseth told senators that the war cost $37.5 billion and defended an $88 billion emergency funding package, including $67.1 billion specifically for the Iran war. The report said 11 US service members had been killed in action by the end of July, while another seven died in non-hostile incidents during the operation. More than 400 US service members were wounded in action through the end of June, according to the report.
