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On top of these cases there is all of the aircraft that has been destroyed while grounded. The high tech AWACS getting blown up was a big hit, among others. The
by rurp 7mo ago
On top of these cases there is all of the aircraft that has been destroyed while grounded. The high tech AWACS getting blown up was a big hit, among others. The losses are likely much worse than we know since the military has been trying to keep a lid on most of them.
- ttul 7mo agoNot to mention the multiple THAAD radars taken offline. Those are $500M assets - and only 8 exist in the world. 24,000 precise transceivers all liquid cooled… not available on Amazon for next day deliver either.
- FlyingBears 7mo agowe have likely moved on from this to satellite as a stop gap.
- nradov 6mo agoMoved on how? Satellites are useful for launch detection and cueing but as far as we know there isn't a satellite constellation capable of tracking airborne targets with enough precision for targeting. And the military couldn't really keep such satellites secret: the emissions would be impossible to hide.
- bijowo1676 7mo agoa single AN/FPS-132 radar costs $1.1 bln, not $500m. And Iran stuck 17 of the CENCCOM sites hosting radars of all kinds across Qarar, Bahrain, Iraq, UAE, Saudi, Jordan, Israel, etc). Total cost is so much bigger, it is staggering. The whole CENTCOM is blind basically, as well as Iron Dome which relied on these radars - all blind now, in addition to long-range early nuke detection to protect CONUS is also blind. in addition to cost, they all require Rare Earth Minerals, and China has banned the export of these (they own like 99% of the market). So not only CENTCOM is blind and incurred damage in high single digit billions, but also will be unable to repair the damage any time soon (probably for decades) even if the funding were made to be available Government obviously pretty silent on all these failures and media doesn't want to dig and ask hard questions Sources: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/world/middleeast/iran-strikes-us-military-communication-infrastructure-in-mideast.html https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/world/middleeast/iran-str... https://responsiblestatecraft.org/iran-radars-airstrikes/ https://responsiblestatecraft.org/iran-radars-airstrikes/
- quantum_state 6mo agoThese very expensive toys are the reasons of the to be $1.5 trillion DoW budget. It’s insane and not sustainable.
- laughing_man 6mo ago$1.5 trillion is the budget the Pentagon is requesting for next year. It's highly unlikely Congress will give them that much money.
- jckrichabdkejdb 7mo ago[dead]
- juliusceasar 7mo agoThis is good news. Actually not for those whom chose to start the 2nd Epstein war. I really hope that Israeli and Iranian governments both go to hell. May both destroy each other.
- iwontberude 6mo agoFor the United States, the government doesn't have the capability to extricate Israel from its political system, but the feds can create blowback for Israel which makes them less capable to influence the US in the future while achieving other strategic aims in the region. US war planners know plenty about blow back and I think this is being done on purpose. I am terrified for innocent Israelis, Iranians and Gulf state residents that have been led into this. Most of the states and peoples in the Middle East who have been destroyed used to be allies with the US. That isn't on accident.
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- readitalready 6mo agoGovernment could sanction Israel like they did to Iran.
- reliabilityguy 7mo agoAFAIK, the one in Qatar was paid by Qatar and operated by US.
- motbus3 7mo agoCmon. At least it is all justified with good reasons!
- hokkos 7mo agoIs this story even true ? There has been fake AI photo about destructed THAAD radars : https://factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com.A2B239E https://factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com.A2B239E
- daemonologist 6mo agoIf you scroll to the bottom of that page, they discuss possible evidence of damage to the radar from satellite imagery.
- HaloZero 6mo agoI thought all the US ones existed in US states/territories? The ones in the middle east could be potentially destroyed true though.
- blitzar 6mo ago> not available on Amazon for next day deliver either Available on aliexpress - but has longer shipping times and of course those tariffs, that you don't have to pay, that you have to pay.
- Betelbuddy 6mo agoThe problems with inventory of THAAD and similar missile systems is actually quite serious: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47504505 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47504505
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- picsao 6mo agoThe problem is that the losses indicate something worse. A breakdown of doctrinal disciplin- mostly created by chronic underestimation of advesaries in the region. If Israel can pulp the proxxies that easy, iran would be easy. Thus it was not necessary to do what ukraine does- mostly keeping planes in the air so they are not bombed on the runway, rotating them among bases - etc. Which is specified as a strategy in the doctrine of the airforce.
- oa335 6mo ago> breakdown of doctrinal disciplin- mostly created by chronic underestimation of advesaries in the region "Keep in mind that the greatest entities, whether they are cities or nations, are the ones most susceptible to the pride that comes before a fall." Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
- picsao 6mo ago[dead]
- functional_dev 6mo agoyes, this part I find to be most interesting.. how many losses before the picture changes for the public?