The United States military has launched a significant offensive against Iran, targeting over 13,000 sites, including the majority of the country’s weapons manufacturing facilities and all sites producing attack drones. This operation, named “Operation Epic Fury,” is being hailed by the Pentagon as a “decisive military victory.”
During a briefing on Wednesday, War Secretary Pete Hegseth and Air Force General Dan Caine, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, detailed the extensive damage inflicted on Iran’s military capabilities. This briefing followed President Trump’s announcement of a two-week ceasefire, expressing hopes for it to pave the way toward lasting peace.
Operation Epic Fury: Key Statistics
- Scale of campaign
- 13,000+ targets struck, Including 4,000+ dynamic targets identified and hit in real time
- 10,000+ flight missions, including 62 bomber runs (18 round-trip missions from the US)
- 50,000+ U.S. personnel involved (CENTCOM, EUCOM, stateside)
- 6 million+ meals consumed; 950,000+ gallons of coffee; 2 million energy drinks; âA lot of nicotineâ
- Air defense and missile targets “wiped out”
- 80% of Iranâs air defense systems destroyed
- 1,500+ air defense targets struck
- 450+ ballistic missile storage facilities hit
- 800 drone storage sites destroyed
- 1,700 incoming missiles and drones intercepted
- Navy “mostly at the bottom of the Arabian Gulf”
- 90%+ of Iranâs regular navy sunk
- 150 ships destroyed, including “all of the major surface combatants”
- ~50% of IRGC small attack boats eliminated
- 700+ strikes on naval mine targets; 95% of naval mines destroyed
- Command and control and logistical networks “devastated”
- 2,000+ command and control nodes destroyed
- Industrial base “shattered”
- 90% of weapons factories struck
- All Shaheed “one-way attack drone” factories hit
- All drone guidance system facilities hit
- 80%+ of missile production and solid rocket motor facilities destroyed
- 20+ naval production facilities damaged or destroyed
- ~80% of nuclear industrial base hit
“By any standard, Epic Fury has effectively dismantled Iran’s military, rendering it incapable of effective combat for years,” stated Hegseth. “In under 40 days, Central Command (CENTCOM), utilizing less than 10% of America’s total combat power, has dismantled one of the largest militaries globally.”
“The nation known as the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism was utterly incapable of defending its people, its territory, or itself,” he added.
