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A great deal of noise is being made about the rate we're expending our fancy munitions in Iran.
One idea about its lavish employment early on is that by the time you've expended the last round, you could use dumb bombs from WW2 dive bombers because air supremacy had been irrevocably achieved.
In case that wasn't obvious, we found out that dive bombing is the most dangerous way to bomb with dumb bombs because of how predictable the bomber's flight path is.
It is also the most accurate means of employing dumb bombs, but the vulnerability is why we figured out stuff like CCRP and CCIP.
Besides, I'm not worried about our rate of consumption.
Shoot all you want, we'll make more.
I am also 95% certain that we're using "first in, first out" methodology and firing the oldest rounds first.
This gets forgotten when some pundits talk about us using or giving away munitions.
For example, Ukraine got a lot of Javelins that were going to expire and have to be either tossed or reworked extensively. We were going to have to buy new ones anyways...
Some munitions can be reworked affordably, some are cheaper to buy new and have a shoot-X of the old ones.
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