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According to a report by the U.S. Army, the United States fired over 150 Anti-Ballistic Missile Interceptors from a number of Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) Batteries located across the Middle East during the 12-Day War last month between Israel and Iran, a decades worth, representing roughly 25% of all interceptors ordered and previously ordered by the Army for THAAD. Additionally, the U.S. Navy launched roughly 80 RIM-161 Standard Missile 3 (SM-3) Surface-to-Air Missiles during the conflict, with the Navy only maintaining a stockpile of several hundred SM-3 Block IA, IB, and IIAs, with Raytheon currently only planned to produce around 55 additional IB in total, and around 12 IIA per year until 2030. Recent conflicts in the Middle East with both the Houthis and Iran, alongside an extremely slow production rate of interceptor missiles by Raytheon and Lockheed Martin, have left U.S. interceptor stockpiles dangerously low for a potential future conflict with China in 2027.