A new U.S. intelligence report suggests that Iran’s nuclear program has been set back only a few months after U.S. strikes, not “completely and totally obliterated” as President Donald Trump has said.
U.S. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine said that seven Spirit bombers were deployed to Iran, each with two crew members. He also confirmed that the attack package included U.S. submarines that launched 30 Tomahawk missiles at Iranian targets; he also noted the involvement of both fourth- and fifth-generation aircraft - including F/A-18s, F-22 Raptors, and F-35 Lightning IIs.
The exact cost of the mission remains unknown, but for context: each B-2 bomber is worth over $2 billion, an F-35 runs around $100 million, and the USS Carl Vinson — a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier — cost roughly $4.5 billion. Caine said that “more than 125 US aircraft participated in this mission”, so who knows how long the bill will be when it comes in. (source)
So worth it, brah.
an excuse to use the budget for that month.
Relative to the B2, 4.5B$ seems cheap for a whole nuclear powered aircraft carrier
It gets a big discount for not being invisible.
Better than applying the money to socialist programs back home, for sure. (the ones still around)
funny thing is active members of the military already get UNIVERSAL discounted healthcare, aka tricare.