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Direct hit in Tel Aviv
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Oh poor Israel thought Iron Dome will protect them. Iran learned a lot from Ukraine. Drones in masses are enough to penetrate the shield. And don’t forget that the Iron Dome costs Israel 1 billion USD for each night in full defence mode. It only takes a couple of days, weeks until the Iron Dome is empty.
War is such an insanely expensive hobby it makes me kinda sick.
Know that US gives fake loans (forgiven the same day) for all IDF expenses. This is somehow not part of US miitary budget even though they pay for everything.
Where are you getting this $1B figure? It appears the main cost is rockets, which run about $50k per. $1B would account for launching 20,000 rockets. There are 10 batteries in Israel with at most 80 rockets each, so a maximum of 800 rockets. That means 25 reloads a day. Is it really burning through that many rockets daily or is there more to this?
I would assume that operational and logistics costs apply to this figure. Aka shipping and handling, which is never free.
This. And all the repairs. Also we’re talking here about military stuff. You don’t use FedEx to ship that. Military personell + equipment is expensive as fuck. Efficiency is not of priority.
Except the US will unilaterally restock the missiles at the expense of the holy american tax payer.
How long can we afford to do that?
Given the political climate, money isn't really the issue. The issue is how many THAAD missiles do we have stockpiled, how fast can we make them, and how fast can we ship them?
"quantative easing"
Literally printing money
can't fire money, can't print industrial capacity
While there’s infinite money, there’s very limited industrial capacity, because the US de-industrialized itself. The US and Europe combined already can’t keep Ukraine supplied.
I meant more politically and materially than just monetarily.
If we cut social programs at home and continue to send/ ramp up even more billions to support Israel it will just create even more unrest, which is already at a low boil.
We also don't have unlimited manufacturing capabilities. How much material can we sacrifice without weakening our own access to these resources.
Depends on how much of the US military gets deployed in the US...
Emphasis on the USD?
Israel attacked with local drones. Iran attacked the Israeli defense network first with expensive hypersonics and then with good old BMs