ARLINGTON, Va.—Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced on March 13 that U.S. forces have made significant progress gaining control over Iran’s skies, and are now relying almost entirely on relatively cheap gravity bombs to strike targets inside the country.
Hegseth provided the update following concerns U.S. forces could exhaust stocks of long-range weapons to strike Iran. Referred to in military parlance as stand-off weapons, these long-range weapons allow U.S. aircraft to attack Iran from a distance while incurring relatively little risk of being shot down, but are expensive and in shorter supply.
