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its almost certainly more than 3 but like, can we be fr, 650? That's 10 times the number of US (plus allies) troop casualties from the first month of the Iraq war
Keep in mind that casualties are not kills. Iran are claiming these are numbers of injured troops, not dead. The US has admitted to "several others" having concussions and shrapnel injuries receiving treatment.
good point, thats on me for misreading it
Then there must have been 326.5 deaths. The truth is always somewhere in the middle.
They figured out how to turn that half of a guy into a cyborg zombie, hence the .5
nah the cum retrieved from 326 dead troops fills half a body bag (israel hasn't really shown us how to do any of this properly but we'll sort it out later)
What do you think fuels the cyborg zombie, (or Zomborg as is the common parlance)?
did somebody say Cumberg?
Casualties includes dead and injured. It is entirely plausible for there to be that many injured.
I can't speak for the Iraqi military's arsenal at that time, but I feel like Iran's current one is probably leagues better and far more competent
For one thing we're not engaged in a ground invasion NOT because we're 'not trying to invade Iran', but because we can't; anyone stupid enough to order this would be sending scores of scumbags to their deaths while still in the air
Also Iraq was easier to conduct horrific attacks upon without retaliation before bothering to put troops on the ground while Iran can actually to some extent defend their airspace; Iraq wasn't able to put up a fight even a 1/100th as Iran is doing now; if they truly made the carrier flee that easily puts them leagues beyond Iraq
It would make sense that this conflict is more lethal because Iran is more advanced than Iraq of 2003… and has more intelligence capabilities.
Everyone was warning that the casualties of this war would dwarf Iraq. Some were thinking of ground invasion - others were saying this more recently - with the air invasion context.
Yeah I'm personally putting it at probably 150-200 casualties