Iran is actively firing ballistic missiles at all its neighbors. Iraq, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and Israel itself have all been targeted. At the same time, American bases are not the only targets of Iranian strikes on Arab countries.

Several hundred missiles were fired by the Iranians. This will worsen the shortage of Patriot anti-aircraft missiles, as Defense Express wrote about even before the U.S. and Israel struck Iran.This figure is not final, since different countries have released their counts at different times, some have not reported at all, and Iran continues its strikes.

Iran has fired hundreds of missiles in the current conflict — U.S. military says more than 500 ballistic missiles plus thousands of drones have been launched so far.

Stopping these attacks is extremely expensive for air-defense systems like Patriot: each interceptor can cost about $4–$5 million, while Iranian missiles and drones typically cost a fraction of that, meaning defence costs easily add up into the billions of dollars.

Patriot interceptor stocks are under strain worldwide: production is slow (only hundreds of new missiles can be built per year), so replenishing the tens or hundreds used in this conflict could take many months — roughly a year or more to fully rebuild a large stock of Patriot interceptors at current production rates.