Iran’s missile and drone stockpiles will last another two or three months as US-Israeli strikes continue, while the US military is also depleting its interceptors, Chinese analysts have noted.
However, how long the war lasts would depend less on stockpiles alone than on the effectiveness of new US deployments and President Donald Trump’s political calculus, one of them cautioned.
Iran has continued its attacks on Israel and on US assets across the Middle East since the conflict was triggered on February 28 by US-Israeli strikes targeting its top leadership.
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But the pace of Iranian missile and drone launches appears to have eased since the early days.
Hu Bo, director of the South China Sea Strategic Situation Probing Initiative, said Iran’s ballistic missile stockpile was likely to be down to its final 30 per cent, with probably fewer than 1,000 units left in its arsenal, as indicated by open-source intelligence.
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But Iran had significant drone advantages, he noted.
