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[–] 115 points 1 year ago (6 children)

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.

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  • [–] 38 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Except the US will unilaterally restock the missiles at the expense of the holy american tax payer.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    How long can we afford to do that?

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    "quantative easing"

    Literally printing money

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago

    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.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago*

    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.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    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?

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I would assume that operational and logistics costs apply to this figure. Aka shipping and handling, which is never free.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    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.

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