The first of 5,000 approved Hellfire missiles for sale has been ordered -- for a total for a total of 800 -- by the Iraqi forces to aid in the fight for the Islamic State, Bloomberg reported.

The order of 800 more adds to the 1,100 already delivered by the U.S., and is expected to be shipped out in November, a Pentagon spokeswoman told Bloomberg.

The U.S. approved the sale of 5,000 of the laser-guided missiles in late August.

They are produced by the military defense giant Lockheed Martin Corp. and assembled at the facility in Troy, Alabama. But more recently, with direction from the Army, Lockheed included three shifts at the Bethesda, Maryland location as well.

The current capacity is about 500 missiles a month, according to company data, Bloomberg reported.

A Pentagon spokeswoman also said that this kind of sale is an example of how a country like Iraq can leverage the foreign military sales process in the U.S.

But the additional firepower has begged the question: how long more will the battle rage on with ISIS (or ISIL)?

General Lloyd Austin, head of U.S. Central Command, told Bloomberg that answer is unknown.

In the meantime Iraq's capital is being threatened on almost all sides with advancing ISIS forces.

A coalition of at least 40 countries, including those neighboring the affected Iraq and Syria, have been unable to wreak any havoc on the ISIS forces.

The U.S. has been engaged in airstrikes since August -- recently named Operation Inherent Resolve, to many yawns -- but has not been able to restrain the militants.

Rather than engaging in a boots-on-the-ground war, again, in Iraq, the U.S. has encouraged countries in the coalition -- especially those who share a border with Iraq and Syria -- to use their forces.

The ISIS forces have been systematically moving through Iraq to get to Baghdad, and have sprawled into Syria from the shared border.