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Again, text PDB to 9889-89898. It's Monday, welcome to the PDBB afternoon bulletin. I'm Mike Baker, your eyes and ears on the world stage. All right, let's get briefed.

First up, Iran may be preparing for its next war with Israel. Reports say that Tehran is building toward the capacity to launch 2,000 missiles at once

in a future strike on the Jewish state. But the real question isn't really how many missiles they

have, it's how many they can actually fire. Later in the show, the nation's longest ever government

shutdown could be nearing its end. Oh, look at that,

after a group of Democrats split from their party's leadership. But first, today's afternoon spotlight.

According to new reporting from the New York Times, Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps, the IRGC,

has been quietly expanding its missile-launched network, working toward a capability that could

allow it to fire 2,000 missiles at once in a future confrontation with Israel.

Now, at first glance, that number sounds very serious. 2,000 missiles launched simultaneously

could swamp Israel's layered air defense system, which includes the Iron

Dome and David's Sling and the Arrow 3 system combined. It would be a blitz, designed, of course,

to overwhelm radar operators and interceptors alike, forcing Israel to make painful choices

about what to shoot down and what has to be let through. But there's more to the calculation here, because it's never been just about the number of missiles that Iran has had. It's more about the number of launchers that they have. During the brief but intense Iran-Israel war earlier this year, Tehran was able to launch roughly 500 missiles and something around

1,100 drones over the course of about a dozen days. Now, not all of them reached their targets,

Israel managed to intercept the vast majority. And that campaign gave us a glimpse of Iran's limits.

Its factories could crank out plenty of missiles, but its ability to launch

them quickly and large coordinated salvos hit a ceiling. To put it simply, missiles are relatively

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