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Spec Ops planes destroyed in rescue cost more than $100MM each
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Date: April 5th, 2026 9:28 AM Author: Soul-stirring Lake Hall Idea He Suggested https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/iran-war-news-2026/card/u-s-special-ops-planes-destroyed-in-iran-cost-more-than-100-million-each (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5853747&forum_id=2,5#49795085) |
Date: April 5th, 2026 9:29 AM Author: Soul-stirring Lake Hall Idea He Suggested https://defencesecurityasia.com/en/us-2-billion-burned-iran-f15e-rescue-mission-hc130-helicopter-losses/
By the end of the mission, the United States had lost an F-15E Strike Eagle, at least two HC-130J Combat King II rescue aircraft, an MH-6 Little Bird helicopter (possibly two), one A-10 Thunderbolt II and possibly multiple MQ-9 Reaper drones, while two HH-60 rescue helicopters were damaged and several other aircraft reportedly declared emergencies.
The overall financial cost of the operation remains disputed, but analysts and military observers now believe the total may ultimately exceed US$2 billion once the destroyed aircraft, emergency deployments, precision munitions, support assets and longer-term operational consequences are taken into account.
Even more damaging than the financial cost is the strategic message that emerged from the operation.
For weeks, Washington had insisted that American and Israeli forces had achieved near-total air superiority over Iran during Operation Epic Fury.
The loss of an F-15E deep inside Iranian territory, followed by the destruction of multiple American rescue aircraft stranded in Iran, has instead raised serious questions about the survivability of U.S. airpower in a highly contested environment. |
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Date: April 5th, 2026 1:53 PM Author: nudist resort really tough guy Keep slaving away, goy....you need to toil to pay for more weapons to defend Israel with! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5853747&forum_id=2,5#49795669) |
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Date: April 5th, 2026 9:32 AM Author: Maize Cruise Ship Blood Rage $1B to save one guy Ljl (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5853747&forum_id=2,5#49795095) |
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Date: April 5th, 2026 9:33 AM Author: Soul-stirring Lake Hall Idea He Suggested prob more than $2B (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5853747&forum_id=2,5#49795097) |
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Date: April 5th, 2026 11:49 AM Author: glittery station double fault think of the leverage Iran would have if they caught him
but yeah, woulda probably been cheaper to carpet bomb the 25-mile radius he was in |
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Date: April 5th, 2026 9:34 AM Author: orange scourge upon the earth $1B to save one guy who’s actually worth something, leaving behind a trail of dead Basij scum who are literally worth nothing. 180! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5853747&forum_id=2,5#49795101) |
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Date: April 5th, 2026 9:39 AM Author: Soul-stirring Lake Hall Idea He Suggested Greater Israel thanks you (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5853747&forum_id=2,5#49795114) |
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Date: April 5th, 2026 11:50 AM Author: glittery station double fault Happy Passover! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5853747&forum_id=2,5#49795361) |
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Date: April 5th, 2026 11:52 AM Author: Bossy Lascivious Business Firm how are u so jewish (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5853747&forum_id=2,5#49795364) |
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Date: April 5th, 2026 9:38 AM Author: provocative piazza quadroon better that than the Hannibal Directive. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5853747&forum_id=2,5#49795109) |
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Date: April 5th, 2026 11:41 AM Author: Slate mildly autistic sneaky criminal partner (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5853747&forum_id=2,5#49795334) |
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Date: April 5th, 2026 9:39 AM Author: Burgundy Nowag Church Building Just think of all the Somali daycare fraud this could have funded (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5853747&forum_id=2,5#49795113) |
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Date: April 5th, 2026 9:44 AM Author: Soul-stirring Lake Hall Idea He Suggested id rather have it fund Somali daycare fraud than Greater Israel (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5853747&forum_id=2,5#49795120) |
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Date: April 5th, 2026 11:59 AM Author: Burgundy Nowag Church Building that’s because you aren’t white and aren’t American (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5853747&forum_id=2,5#49795381) |
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Date: April 5th, 2026 10:15 AM Author: Arousing volcanic crater rigpig What a hit piece.
Libs are so mad rn |
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Date: April 5th, 2026 11:41 AM Author: Slate mildly autistic sneaky criminal partner guys who write military magazines: notorious libs
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Date: April 5th, 2026 11:48 AM Author: glittery station double fault former LA Times reporter here. Many of them, in fact, are. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5853747&forum_id=2,5#49795349) |
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Date: April 5th, 2026 11:51 AM Author: Slate mildly autistic sneaky criminal partner guy who used to work for one: no, they are not. can't think of a single one.
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Date: April 5th, 2026 11:55 AM Author: glittery station double fault LOL, they absolutely are. Maybe the olds who actually served aren't. but even some of them are. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5853747&forum_id=2,5#49795372) |
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Date: April 6th, 2026 1:03 PM Author: ebony brunch (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5853747&forum_id=2,5#49797803) |
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Date: April 5th, 2026 11:32 AM Author: provocative piazza quadroon جمال سلطان @GamalSultan1 Translated from Arabic What happened in the rescue operation for the American pilots whose plane crashed inside Iranian territory is a military scandal by all measures, a military humiliation for the arrogant mullah regime, and it actually reveals the accuracy of Prince Turki Al-Faisal's description years ago that Iran is a paper tiger, a stuttering media speech, and propagandistic bluster from politically and militarily deranged leaderships psychologically shaken by the shock. Twice in a row in less than a week, an enemy military landing operation takes place on your soil and among your people, right in the face of your forces that have only succeeded in oppressing their poor people. American forces comb through Iranian land, killing any Iranian soldier who approaches the injured pilot's landing zones, scattering the bodies of your officers and soldiers by the dozens over the mountaintops, then securing their pilots, then safely transporting them out of Iran, and the rescue forces returning without a single injury among them—this is called military humiliation. This is a farce, by God.
https://x.com/GamalSultan1/status/2040655835710292296 |
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Date: April 5th, 2026 11:40 AM Author: Soul-stirring Lake Hall Idea He Suggested yeah its a farce when you're outspent 100x to 1, and are fighting the entire world
its actually amazing that they could take down a bunch of US planes, including a fighterjet. i thought Trump said the airspace was definitely clear? |
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Date: April 5th, 2026 11:48 AM Author: provocative piazza quadroon i have to give them credit for taking down a few planes, but realistically the airspace is 99.9% clear and uncontested. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5853747&forum_id=2,5#49795351) |
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Date: April 5th, 2026 1:22 PM Author: Frum Senate Famous Landscape Painting Allegedly there were Iranian factions the US was working with that slowed down the IRGC. The US was also feeding bad Intel into streams being monitored by Chinese and Russian Intel and looped back to the IRGC. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5853747&forum_id=2,5#49795573) |
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Date: April 5th, 2026 1:52 PM Author: provocative piazza quadroon i had read that the local population wasn't the biggest fans of IRGC. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5853747&forum_id=2,5#49795665) |
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Date: April 6th, 2026 12:26 PM Author: Frum Senate Famous Landscape Painting 90% of Irans oil is under minority Arab lands. These guys would love to push the Persians back into the mountains. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5853747&forum_id=2,5#49797660) |
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Date: April 5th, 2026 1:54 PM Author: dull jap principal's office Our guys are working around the clock for Israel, it's inspiring (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5853747&forum_id=2,5#49795672) |
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Date: April 6th, 2026 12:28 PM Author: Soul-stirring Lake Hall Idea He Suggested (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5853747&forum_id=2,5#49797667) |
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Date: April 6th, 2026 12:28 PM Author: avocado blathering chapel roast beef I think this just proves America is ready for a ground invasion, IMHO. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5853747&forum_id=2,5#49797666) |
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Date: April 6th, 2026 12:33 PM Author: Frum Senate Famous Landscape Painting It is pretty crazy Americans landed two airplanes in Iran, mind you, near their most valuable land in the country. Those aircraft fucked up, so they waited and called in three more airplanes. That's almost 8 hours sitting on the ground. They did this with minimal engagement, and with considerable help on the ground. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5853747&forum_id=2,5#49797686) |
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Date: April 6th, 2026 12:35 PM Author: avocado blathering chapel roast beef Completely agree. We should move forward with a ground invasion. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5853747&forum_id=2,5#49797692) |
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Date: April 6th, 2026 12:52 PM Author: Frum Senate Famous Landscape Painting How do you think that would go? It would probably start from Kuwait and through the Iranian Arab lowlands where the oil is. Probably an air drop into the capital. I bet they roll pretty quickly. Drones and hardened bunkers won't help. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5853747&forum_id=2,5#49797762) |
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Date: April 6th, 2026 12:59 PM Author: avocado blathering chapel roast beef I think America would take Tehran in about 10 days. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5853747&forum_id=2,5#49797782) |
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Date: April 6th, 2026 12:30 PM Author: Green factory reset button candlestick maker Trump said this was part of the plan (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5853747&forum_id=2,5#49797673) |
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