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6/21/2025, 2:53:49 AM
>>63865514
>By what, all the big, fat, slow earthmoving equipment that you can just keep blowing up?
You can't though anon, or rather, Israel can't. It tends to get ignored in low effort threads like these on /k/, but aviation combat is really fucking expensive. An F-35 is like, $10k/flight hour, minimum, and that's a good price. Armaments are expensive. Missiles are expensive. This little excursion will probably cost Israel something like $10 billion. And Americans can easily forget but for most countries that's real money. Israel has a GDP of around $580 billion, which for their population size is extremely good, but war is about absolutes as much as relative. In contrast the GDP of America is about $30 trillion. In terms of percentage of national GDP, it'd be like this was a war costing America over half a trillion dollars. No joke.
So Israel cannot afford to just keep it up indefinitely, they've got a pretty fixed window. Anything the Iranians can wait out a month isn't much value.
>By what, all the big, fat, slow earthmoving equipment that you can just keep blowing up?
You can't though anon, or rather, Israel can't. It tends to get ignored in low effort threads like these on /k/, but aviation combat is really fucking expensive. An F-35 is like, $10k/flight hour, minimum, and that's a good price. Armaments are expensive. Missiles are expensive. This little excursion will probably cost Israel something like $10 billion. And Americans can easily forget but for most countries that's real money. Israel has a GDP of around $580 billion, which for their population size is extremely good, but war is about absolutes as much as relative. In contrast the GDP of America is about $30 trillion. In terms of percentage of national GDP, it'd be like this was a war costing America over half a trillion dollars. No joke.
So Israel cannot afford to just keep it up indefinitely, they've got a pretty fixed window. Anything the Iranians can wait out a month isn't much value.
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