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Operation Epic Fury

Joint U.S.-Israeli military campaign against Iran that began Feb. 28, 2026, involving carrier deployments and heavy U.S. munitions expenditure.

Known aliases

  • Epic Fury
  • OEF

Current stories

productOne report1 publisher

Army's LOADOUT upgrade goes after the time soldiers lost chasing cargo updates

CASCOM, the US Army's Combined Arms Support Command, upgraded its LOADOUT cargo software after Operation Epic Fury to cut time spent chasing shipments. The fixes give units and planners one shared view of requests and capacity, so the gain should show up as fewer status calls. The report gives no count of those calls.

Reality

Evidence45
Adoption30
Hype gap+10
Incentives
Not scored
Confidence40
leadershipConfirmed7 publishers

Navy counts the USS Abraham Lincoln's record 321-day deployment in sorties and fuel burned

USS Abraham Lincoln returned to San Diego on Thursday after a record 321-day deployment supporting the US war with Iran. The Navy's published figures measure what its air wing flew and burned, while the strain on the crew came to light through Congress and the press.

Perspective Coverage

8 publishers
Builder
Builder 18%
Operator
Operator 68%
Investor
Investor 14%

Reality

Evidence60
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+20
Incentives70
Confidence58
investConfirmed2 publishers

Treasury Partners puts the equity trigger at a 5.25% ten-year Treasury yield

Fortune's account of the global selloff traces a chain from oil above $100 a barrel to the debt behind AI data centers. The single testable number in it is a yield level named by one investment chief.

Perspective Coverage

3 publishers
Builder
Builder 7%
Operator
Operator 53%
Investor
Investor 40%

Reality

Evidence62
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+20
Incentives45
Confidence58
investOne report1 publisher

Waltz calls time an American advantage on day 204 of a war projected to last six weeks

Mike Waltz has now twice declined to say when the Iran war ends, in July and again on CNN on September 20. The administration's own early projection for major combat operations was four to six weeks.

Reality

Evidence44
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+18
Incentives58
Confidence41
buildOne report1 publisher

IRGC recovers malfunctioning Dive-LD drone near Hormuz; analyst says Iran could reverse-engineer its mechanical systems

Reuters reported on September 9 that Iranian forces recovered the 19-foot autonomous vehicle after it failed near the Strait of Hormuz. The Navy calls the lost unit older and defective; Anduril has called the platform the most reliable on the market.

Publishers:tomshardware.com

Reality

Evidence48
Adoption30
Hype gap+35
Incentives78
Confidence45
leadershipOne report1 publisher

Iran plans exclusion zone near Hormuz requiring permission to transit

American strikes on five Revolutionary Guard tankers and Tehran's plan to stop unpermitted vessels have turned a current-quarter fuel line into a routing and compliance question, with Brent's seven-week high of $97 the part most plans already price.

Publishers:cbsnews.com

Reality

Evidence50
Adoption35
Hype gap+20
Incentives78
Confidence50
productOne report1 publisher

G42 reportedly explores selling control to Americans to keep chips flowing past April 2027

Bloomberg says executives have discussed an American majority shareholder. G42 already pulled Huawei gear out of its racks and wired US-specified monitoring into its own data centres, and each concession came with an expiry date.

Publishers:thenextweb.com

Reality

Evidence55
Adoption68
Hype gap+15
Incentives74
Confidence58
investOne report1 publisher

Caine's warning to Hegseth priced US air defense at roughly two weeks of high-intensity fire

A classified assessment handed to Pete Hegseth before Operation Epic Fury measured American readiness in interceptors rather than resolve, and the campaign it warned about ran about 38 days against a stock described as good for fourteen.

Reality

Evidence24
Adoption35
Hype gap+30
Incentives70
Confidence28
productOne report1 publisher

AWS urges UAE and Bahrain customers off two regions it expects to be down for months

The deals that put capacity into the UAE and Israel closed weeks before the February strikes on Iran. What follows for tenants is a region-selection problem that uptime credits were never written to cover.

Reality

Evidence55
Adoption62
Hype gap+8
Incentives55
Confidence50
securityOne report1 publisher

Navy tells 608,000 people to erase themselves, and names no way to check

Acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao's "Epic Vigilance" notice asks sailors, reservists, civilians and their families to strip any public trace of Navy affiliation. It cites no specific incident.

Publishers:military.com

Reality

Evidence42
Adoption22
Hype gap+34
Incentives58
Confidence38