In the aftermath of Operation Epic Fury, a 40-day air campaign against Iran that ended in April, the United States finds itself confronting a quiet but consequential reckoning: the most sophisticated weapons in its arsenal have been spent faster than they can be made. More than a thousand Tomahawk missiles and nearly fifteen hundred Patriot interceptors were consumed in a conflict that cost $37.5 billion, leaving planners to weigh the distance between present depletion and future demand. The gap between what was fired and what can be replaced — measured not in months but in years — raises one