The claim in The Factum's 'Iran's $1B Reaper Harvest' article that Iran destroyed 20-30 MQ-9 Reapers representing 20% of US inventory lacks substantiation. US Air Force inventory stands at approximately 300 MQ-9s with confirmed losses to Iranian-backed forces totaling fewer than five over the past decade per CENTCOM records. Bloomberg has published no such confirmation of mass attritions; instead, public DoD statements detail isolated incidents like the 2019 shootdown of a single RQ-4 and sporadic Houthi strikes on MQ-9s numbering in the single digits. Pentagon budget data shows no $1B replacement surge tied to Iranian actions, contradicting the 20% figure outright.