How much do all those missiles cost? Asking for a friend who would have preferred to have healthcare, education, free electricity, and a fully solvent Social Security system, amongst other peaceful priorities.

[–] Ilixtze@lemmy.ml 28 points 21 hours ago (37 children)

Aim for the skies Iran! I'm rooting for a lot more aircraft and a couple of aircraft carriers to be added to that tally!

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[–] gon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

See, if it was called "Epic Furry" instead, everyone in Iran would be a fox by now.

[–] scottmeme@sh.itjust.works 6 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

One of the Congressman that made a press release original posted it calling it "Epic Furry" before it was updated

Edit: archived version https://web.archive.org/web/20260228210308/https://rutherford.house.gov/media/press-releases/rutherford-statement-operation-epic-furry

[–] orc_princess@lemmy.ml 5 points 19 hours ago

This is where they miscalculated

[–] Collatz_problem@hexbear.net 16 points 20 hours ago

I wish all American aircraft a lot of "Attention! Thermal signature detected!".

[–] Akh@lemmy.world 16 points 20 hours ago (6 children)

F-35 is supposed to be stealth, it turns out to be extremely expensive garbage. Taxpayers should be angry at Lockheed

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 2 points 9 hours ago

The F-35 was designed from the start to be a revenue stream. Everything you hear about it is pure, unadulterated marketing wank.

[–] Bloomcole@lemmy.world 11 points 16 hours ago

That has been known a long time, called a 'complete failure' by their own generals.
Took some time to prove it since the cowards never fought an adversary that could defend itself.
Despite plenty of data and negative articles many of our sell-out EU vassals 'decided' to buy these also immensely expensive things.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 23 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I mean it's stealth in one spectrum. Evidently the geniuses who designed the flying Cybertruck didn't consider other spectrums like thermal.

[–] Haquer@lemmy.today 8 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Stealth in one spectrum, at very specific angles (mostly front facing). It's a joke

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 6 points 14 hours ago

The whole thing was basically a giant grift from the very start.

[–] flint@lemmy.ml 15 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

tfw the grift is so extensive even the defense industry is a scam

[–] ScientifficDoggo@lemmy.zip 10 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

The defense industry has ALWAYS been a scam though...

[–] fishy@lemmy.today 4 points 15 hours ago

Yup, we subsidize them at every step and then pay whatever they ask. Then it all fails to deliver any results.

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[–] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 9 points 19 hours ago

1,948,800,000 about 2 billion of useless junk destroyed.

[–] NeelixBiederman@hexbear.net 12 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Didn't an f16 also get hit yesterday over Iraq?

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 9 points 20 hours ago

it sure did https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/footage-iranian-down-f16

[–] SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works 4 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Thats a lot less than I thought it would be by this stage.

But I also suspect that Iranian military losses are also a lot less than the US is proporting

[–] Bloomcole@lemmy.world 7 points 16 hours ago

Before they could use missiles from a safe distance like the cowards they are.
But running low on them so they had to start using more planes recently. (Saw this reported last week)
this increases the risk dramatically.
And 4 hits in 24 hrs reflect this.
Let's hope it goes up a lot more.

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