Israel is running critically low on interceptors, US officials say

https://www.semafor.com/article/03/14/2026/israel-is-running-critically-low-on-interceptors-us-officials-say

34 Comments

  1. DestinyPotato on

    Sounds like more US Tax payer money going to anything but the American people.

  2. Elevated-Hype on

    > The US has been aware of Israel’s low capacity for months, one US official said: “It’s something we expected and anticipated.”

    >This official emphasized to Semafor that the US is not running similarly low on interceptors of its own. That comment comes amid broader concerns about interceptor depletion from a longer military engagement in Iran leaving the US in a poor position.

    >It’s also unclear whether the US might seek to sell or share any of its own interceptors with Israel, which would pose its own strain on domestic supplies. The US has included missile defense assets in past provisions of military aid to Israel.

    Israel should have restocked before starting a war. Now they will almost certainly try to bum some off us, like that one kid in class who never had a pencil.

  3. lastpassonright on

    They wouldn’t have moved batteries from South Korea to the middle east if everyone’s stockpile was fine.

  4. NateBerukAnjing on

    didn’t they have futuristic laser beam weapons that can shoot down rockets for free?

  5. Trump –

    “YOU HEAR THAT IRAN” (wink wink)

    (filters dirty money)

    Trump – Get the assembly running Raytheon, Boeing, Lockheed, etc

    (filters dirty money)

  6. ScaredChampionship32 on

    This war has been a disaster for everyone involved. Not only will U.S. troops eventually be sent into a major ground war in Iran, but antisemitism in the U.S. will rise due to Israel’s role in bringing the U.S. into this war.

  7. At this rate, they are going to have to release the Epstein files as a distraction from this folly, which itself was a distraction for the Epstein files.

  8. How the FUCK do you watch what has been happening between Russia and Ukraine for the last 4 years without seeing this glaringly obvious asymmetry? You’d think at least the warmongering defense contractors would have been ahead of the curve.

  9. TomTomXD1234 on

    Well no shit. There is a reason why the US is pulling its interceptors from Korea to move to the middle east LOL.

    Iran is clearly doing more damage than the US is willing to admit.

    They keep hitting bases daily

  10. Sorry all I’m hearing is military supply contractors stocks go up. Time to buy buy buy!

  11. Whew, lucky for them that Iran’s entire military capabilities have been completely obliterated according to Trump…

  12. so we ask you, the American tax payer, please donate your money for more bombs and death please. pretty please!

  13. Hmm. Looks like consequences are coming for re-electing corrupt and incompetent felons and war criminals.

    Will people finally learn?

    Well they haven’t yet so why should they this time…

  14. Iliketoeatsweets on

    No shit, this is literally the first chapter of Sunt Tzu’s book Art of war where he talks of five constants. If the ruler cannot convince his people on the moral high ground of his war, loss is guaranteed. No one wanted this war. Iran was at the negotiation table. The moment these guys broke that negotiation, Iran had won the moral ground.

  15. Taxpayers are paying for American troops to die on behalf of israel. I’m sure morale is great

  16. Why would they say that?

    Unless they have plenty and want Iran to use the “good stuff” before they run out?

  17. Brings to mind an old Iranian saying, roughly translated: It takes a single fool to throw a stone down a well and a dozen wise men to get it out.

  18. Oh NO!!! This is terrible!!! If only there was a way not to have started a war.

    Oh well.

  19. neverthesaneagain on

    They are already prepping their citizens that regime change in Iran isnt happening.

  20. “Quick – everyone please send billions of dollars that they can’t afford themselves with their free education and healthcare, won’t someone please protect them?”

    (Ted Cruz, and Lindsay Graham, probably)

  21. all this because a fucking pedophile is trying to distract us from his heinous crimes. We’re not even on the worst timeline, but we are absolutely on the fucking dumbest one.

  22. Wow, almost as in waging war against all your neighbours at the same time is a bad idea…

  23. Most countries seldom have supplies stockpiled to cover extended conflicts and the way Israel has been fighting first with Iran’s proxies and then Iran itself, not surprising.