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The Iranian Army's air defense system shot down another US F-15 fighter jet as part of Iran's response to the Zionist-American aggression.

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[–] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 27 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

How much do those cost again? And we still can't give medical care?

[–] wuffah@lemmy.world 14 points 33 minutes ago

About $31 million each, or $65 million adjusted for inflation.

Although, we don’t make them anymore and the replacement F-15EX models are closer to $95 million.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 13 points 57 minutes ago

Ten dollars?

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 4 points 12 minutes ago* (last edited 9 minutes ago)

4 lost fighter jets now. What a shishow.

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 14 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

So much for the undefeated fighter

[–] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 11 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

Afaik it hasn't been downed by another aircraft. I think that's where the moniker comes from.

[–] Sunforged@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Stories from Veitnam veterans about how this number gets "fixed" by reporting downs as ground to air in order to perpetuate the notion of air superiority.

Not saying that is the case here, but take the US story with a grain of salt.

[–] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 2 points 25 minutes ago (1 children)

Yeah I can certainly see them fudging the numbers.

[–] Sunforged@lemmy.ml 4 points 14 minutes ago

I mean 3 downs in a single day due to "friendly fire" is already suspect enough. Now that the number is growing it's hard to chalk that up to pure incompetence.

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 5 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

True, but that Kuwaiti F-18 got 60% of the way to ace, and that was friendly fire

[–] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 4 points 24 minutes ago

Easier to fox 2 when the frienemy isn't expecting a sidewinder up the exhaust haha!

[–] Dicska@lemmy.world 30 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

First F-15: "it was friendly fire". Second F-15: "shoots down another F-15".

Great title, BTW: it shows again that 'US' is somewhere it definitely shouldn't be.

[–] nocturne@slrpnk.net 12 points 59 minutes ago (1 children)

We cannot even take care of our own citizens, we should not be wasting money on senseless aggression across the globe.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 7 points 49 minutes ago (1 children)

we should not be wasting money

Every time I hear someone complain about how much money this is costing, I picture that bloody backpack from the girl's school we bombed.

The American value of human life must be net-negative at this point.

[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 5 points 29 minutes ago

EPA already accounts as the value of Americans life as 0, it's understandable that the military accounts for non Americans as negative value