MEXICO CITY.— On Saturday, February 28, United States and Israel they launched a strong attack against Iran. In the first raids, the iranian supreme leaderhe ayatollah, Ali Khamenei and other senior officers of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard.
From that first day, the United States mobilized a large military apparatus to attack Iran and defend its own positions and those of its allies in the Middle Eastwhat the United States government has not said yet is how much is it costing you the call Operation “Epic Fury”.
According to a article by Kaanita Lyerpublished in the CNN web portal in Spanishhe Pentagon has not shared an estimate on the cost of war and has not yet asked Congress for a supplemental spending bill for the operation.
According to the publication, Lindsay Koshgarianprogram director of National Priorities Project at the Institute of Political Studies He said, “This is highly unpredictable and that’s why we won’t know the cost until it’s over.” He also noted that the conflict “not necessary” and is detracting from other policies that could “make life more affordable for Americans.”
891.4 million dollars per day
Kaanita Lyer’s article adds information provided by a panel of experts based in Washington that points out that The war is costing around 891.4 million dollars per dayaccording to the group of experts that analyzed the information that the Pentagon has shared about the targets it attacked and the assets involved in the operation.
The Center for Strategic and International Studies stressed that air, naval and land operations will be the largest expenses.
He added that it is expected that the air deployments cost 30 million dollars a dayand the naval maneuvers would be around 15 million per day. While the land movements will cost 1.6 million dollars daily.
For his part, the Univision web portal points out that the United States spares no expense in order to win the war against Iran.
Missiles launched by the US at Iran
The article adds that, to deploy its military operation in Iran, the United States would have spent some 1 billion dollarsaccording to different estimates.
The first day of the war, three US F-15E Strike Eagle aircraft with value of 90 million dollars each were shot down over Kuwait, representing a loss of almost 300 million dollars in one day.
The United States has spent about 630 million dollars in the transfer of troops, ships and aircraft to the Middle East region, as reported Elaine McCuskerformer official of Pentagon budget to the newspaper The Wall Street.
The article also adds that, in 2025, the US Army signed a contract with the empresa Lockheed Martin by 4.94 billion dollars to manufacture in one year 400 precision attack missiles (PrSM), therefore, it can be estimated that each PrSM missile would have a cost of almost 12.5 million dollars.
The US would be spending $11,500 per second
Some analysts estimate that President Donald Trump has allocated some $11,500 per second to win this war, which means that the Operation “Epic Fury” has cost more than 5.6 billion dollars.
The Univision article concludes that, just the operation of its main US aircraft carrier, the so-called USS Gerald R. Fordit costs Donald Trump’s government some 11.4 billion dollars per day.
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