Re: Israeli Faces From Earlier Today :-)

On 4/17/24 00:46, Physfitfreak wrote:

Nevatim airbase alone was during the operation reported "totally destroyed" by two different news sources (I don't remember the sources). That's the airbase that holds the F-35s. How much does an F-35 cost?... The older pictures show at least 30 hangars there. How many of them got s
destroyed? Add that to what Israelis and others used up in various missiles to defend themselves. Plus of course what they have to spend to repair all the structural damages.

This requires a bit of spoon feeding. In war, as it was proven in WWII, the targets in enemy airbases aren't the fighter jets themselves, but the warehouses that supply parts to them. It was shown by Russians today via satellite images that Iran hit 9 warehouses in Nevatim and 5 warehouses in Ramon. The fighter jets themselves were being flown and/or used the whole time, none were in the bases.
But hitting warehouses renders all of them grounded very soon and for a long time because warehousing is actually a complex and complicated and extremely costly as well as sensitive task, as they are, but especially after they get bombed, it halts the devices that they replenish parts for. Americans in WWII always hit German warehouses and left their fighters alone. And soon gained air superiority as a result. That's why I mentioned what F-35 price was, cause all that money after the supporting warehouses are hit is wasted and should be added to total loss in a war situation.
If the number of hangers are still about 30, then 30 F-35's will soon be grounded. Calculate the waste in dollars.