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 32 points 2 weeks ago (38 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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[–] theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 1 week ago

Anything making the US military even slightly less able to enforce imperialism and oppress the world is amazing.

[–] gon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 2 weeks 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 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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 6 points 2 weeks ago

This is where they miscalculated

[–] Akh@lemmy.world 17 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

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

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 25 points 2 weeks 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 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 week ago

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

[–] Bloomcole@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week 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.

[–] Dionysus@leminal.space 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Taxpayers are too stupid to grasp numbers this big.

They only care about the wealth tax on people who make more than 400k a year. That's a number they can understand cause it's roughly a house.

Even though the twats who vote for this rarely hit that level of income.

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[–] Collatz_problem@hexbear.net 17 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] NeelixBiederman@hexbear.net 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] Dionysus@leminal.space 9 points 2 weeks ago

I'm so tired of winning.

[–] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week 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 8 points 1 week 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.

[–] TheGoldenV@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

Should probably round down on the low cost of the warthog. Pennies on the dollar.

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