🇮🇷⚔️🇺🇸 Here’s what is known so far about U.S. Air Force losses during Operation Epic Fury:
Total losses are estimated to exceed $2 billion, with replacement costs potentially even higher.
— Four F-15E Strike Eagles have been lost, one over Iran and three downed by friendly fire over Kuwait.
— An A-10 Warthog was shot down while providing close air support (CAS) for combat search and rescue (CSAR) operations.
— An F-35 Lightning II fighter aircraft was damaged by an Iranian surface-to-air missile (SAM).
— An E-3 Sentry AWACS aircraft was completely destroyed at Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia.
— Two KC-135R aerial refueling aircraft have crashed, including one destroyed at Prince Sultan Air Base.
— Six additional tankers were damaged, one in an incident over Iraq and five at Prince Sultan Air Base.
— 17 MQ-9 Reaper drones have crashed or been shot down by Iranian forces since February 28.
— One HH-60M helicopter was damaged in an FPV drone attack on Camp Victory in Iraq.
— Two HH-60W helicopters were damaged during CSAR operation in Iran.
*This graph was made before news broke of a US Army Boeing CH-47 "Chinook" heavy-lift helicopter being destroyed inside Camp Buehring, Kuwait.
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Azerbaijan: This Turkish country has destroyed more Christian monuments than ISIS.
Based off satellite data, Azerbaijan erased 108 Armenian monasteries, churches and cemeteries - in just one region.
By comparison, ISIS destroyed dozens of churches.
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— Hypothetically, if the U.S. wanted to carry out a naval landing in Iran, they would do it somewhere outside the Persian Gulf, most likely Chabahar or somewhere else in the flat open coasts of Sistan-Balochistan Province.
That way, they don’t need to risk their ships entering the Persian Gulf under heavy anti-ship fire and incoming drones while trying to land their soldiers on a rugged coastline full of fortified positions and artillery emplacements.
In Chabahar, they could bring their ships close enough to the shore with relative safety, under heavy air cover. U.S. jets, drones, and attack helicopters would suppress any anti-ship batteries heavily, and create sufficiently safe conditions for the initial ‘landing’. One also cannot rule out the possibility of deploying U.S. airborne forces to secure key sites before an amphibious landing is attempted.
This might be coupled with increased Balochi terrorist activity across the Iranian rear lines, complicating logistics and the transfer of ...