US forces struck more than 13,000 targets in Iran, including most of the regime’s weapons factories and every attack drone production facility, as part of the “decisive military victory” achieved during Operation Epic Fury, according to the Pentagon.
War Secretary Pete Hegseth and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Air Force Gen. Dan Caine provided the detailed breakdown of the damage inflicted on the Iranian regime’s ability to project power during a briefing Wednesday, a day after President Trump announced a two-week cease-fire in the war that he hopes will lead to a lasting peace.
Operation Epic Fury: By the numbers
- 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; “A lot of nicotine”
- Air defense and missile targets “wiped out”
- 80% of Iran’s 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 Iran’s 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 measure, Epic Fury decimated Iran’s military and rendered it combat ineffective for years to come,” Hegseth said. “You see, in less than 40 days, one of our combatant commands, Central Command, CENTCOM, using less than 10 percent of America’s total combat power, dismantled one of the world’s largest militaries.
“The world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism proved utterly incapable of defending itself, its people, or its territory.”
