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CBS News aired a "Sunday Morning" cover story on September 13, 2026, updated on air at 11:30 a.m. ET, examining what it described as hard truths about America's military arsenal. The roughly eight-minute report noted that the war with Iran had been launched more than six months earlier and showed no sign of ending, raising questions about U.S. stockpiles of interceptors and precision munitions. The segment was significant because sustained combat operations have strained American production capacity for advanced missiles, a constraint that affects both the Iran campaign and U.S. commitments to allies elsewhere. Defense-industrial capacity had become a recurring point of debate in Washington as the conflict stretched on and as the midterm campaign intensified. The broadcast brought that technical and budgetary argument to a large Sunday television audience.