Pentagon Inspector General Publishes First Quarterly Report on Operation Epic Fury Campaign Against Iran

The Pentagon Inspector General's first quarterly report to Congress on Operation Epic Fury, covering February 28 through June 30, put the campaign's cost at $33.4 billion, including $22.3 billion spent on munitions, $7.4 billion in cumulative obligations, and $3.7 billion in equipment losses 12. The report found that munitions expenditure "resulted in strategic inventory shortfalls and revealed industrial base bottlenecks for munitions resupply," citing specific constraints in solid rocket motor production, high-grade explosives and propellants, and skilled manufacturing labor 3. It documented losses including four F-15s destroyed, one F-35 and seven KC-135 tankers damaged, up to 30 MQ-9 Reaper drones destroyed, and $3.7 billion in equipment losses, alongside 417 service members wounded and seven killed 23. Separately, the report said Iranian strikes damaged or destroyed hundreds of buildings at U.S. bases across Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Oman, and Jordan, including roughly 600 attacks on U.S. facilities in Iraq alone, and put diplomatic-facility repair costs at roughly $184 million, without providing a comparable cost estimate for the base damage 23. The Comptroller's cost figures have not been independently audited 3.