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U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegset called reports by American media that key munitions stocks in the U.S. armed forces have been depleted false. The Pentagon chief wrote this on the social network X.
“That headline is not true. CNN — shame on you,” Hegset said.
To his post the Pentagon chief added a screenshot of a CNN news bulletin that claimed that during the operation against Iran the U.S. had critically exhausted its air defense arsenals, using 80% of THAAD interceptor missiles compared to prewar levels, and also about half of its Patriot anti-missile stockpiles.
“Obviously, we do not hate enough the media that produce fake news,” the defense minister wrote.
At the same time, he did not provide any data on the presence of the types of weapons mentioned by the media in U.S. Army stocks.
Earlier BAGNET reported that over five months of the war with Iran the U.S. Army used most of its stocks of long-range precision missiles.
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