Inside Operation Epic Fury: A Breakdown of the Military Triumph in Iran

The United States military has executed strikes on over 13,000 targets within Iran, targeting key facilities such as the regime’s armament factories and all drone production sites. This offensive, part of “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 how the operation severely crippled Iran’s capacity for military aggression. This update followed President Trump’s announcement of a two-week ceasefire, which he hopes will pave the way to enduring 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; “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 all accounts, Epic Fury has significantly weakened Iran’s military might, leaving it ineffective for the foreseeable future,” stated Hegseth. “In under 40 days, Central Command, or CENTCOM, dismantled one of the globe’s largest militaries using less than 10 percent of America’s total combat resources.”

“Iran, known as the world’s foremost state sponsor of terrorism, was completely unable to defend its citizens or its territory,” Hegseth added.