What is the story here, even Elmo is chipping in?

1 hour ago, Cult Icon said:

It's Midsummer!

31 minutes ago, Matt! said:

so Israel claims that Iran has more missiles that the Pentagon claims that Russia fired at Ukraine ....

21 minutes ago, Cult Icon said:

so Israel claims that Iran has more missiles that the Pentagon claims that Russia fired at Ukraine ....

Not even close.

IISS - Israel’s attack and the limits of Iran’s missile strategy

https://www.iiss.org/online-analysis/online-analysis/2025/06/israels-attack-and-the-limits-of-irans-missile-strategy/

The scale of the remaining missile threat from Iran remains uncertain and depends on several variables that are currently unknown. Chief among them is the size of Iran’s ballistic missile stockpile. In 2022, United States’ Central Command estimates placed the arsenal at approximately 3,000 missiles, although this would include short-range ballistic missiles with insufficient range to reach Israel. More recent Israeli assessments suggest a figure closer to 2,000 operational missiles. This would allow Iran to conduct only a limited number of large-scale barrages aimed at overwhelming Israeli missile defences. Moreover, this estimate does not account for ongoing Israeli operations targeting launchers, storage facilities and missile bases, which are likely to reduce Iran’s available inventory further.

EDIT: Maybe 2000-3000 would be a fair estimate?

EDIT2: Maybe they have shipped those ballistic missiles to Russia as well?

Edited 3 hours ago3 hr by Matt!

16 minutes ago, Matt! said:

Not even close.

IISS - Israel’s attack and the limits of Iran’s missile strategy

https://www.iiss.org/online-analysis/online-analysis/2025/06/israels-attack-and-the-limits-of-irans-missile-strategy/

The scale of the remaining missile threat from Iran remains uncertain and depends on several variables that are currently unknown. Chief among them is the size of Iran’s ballistic missile stockpile. In 2022, United States’ Central Command estimates placed the arsenal at approximately 3,000 missiles, although this would include short-range ballistic missiles with insufficient range to reach Israel. More recent Israeli assessments suggest a figure closer to 2,000 operational missiles. This would allow Iran to conduct only a limited number of large-scale barrages aimed at overwhelming Israeli missile defences. Moreover, this estimate does not account for ongoing Israeli operations targeting launchers, storage facilities and missile bases, which are likely to reduce Iran’s available inventory further.

EDIT: Maybe 2000-3000 would be a fair estimate?

EDIT2: Maybe they have shipped those ballistic missiles to Russia as well?

Yeah I think that figure from Net is propaganda. TBH I don't trust anything from IISS either (their figures for Russia/Ukraine have been wrong)