Houthi rebels have shot down 7 US Reaper drones worth $200 million in recent weeks
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Houthi rebels in Yemen have shot down seven U.S. Reaper drones in less than six weeks. It's a loss of aircraft worth more than $200 million in what is becoming the most dramatic cost to the Pentagon of the military campaign against the Iran-backed militants.
  • ElcaineVolta@kbin.melroy.org
    12·
    24 days ago

    $200M is a lot of (insulin, textbooks, fresh vegetables, vaccines, literally-insert-almost-anything-here). it was wasted the moment it left the factory.

    • NewDark
      12·
      24 days ago

      It’s worse than that. Flushing away $200M would be more useful given those weapons destroy and kill.

    • pulido
      4·
      23 days ago

      All money wasted just so the US can support israel.

  • PowerCrazy@lemmy.mlEnglish
    4·
    23 days ago

    This is good thing for the dozen or so people benefiting from our unlimited funding to defense contractors and of course a bad thing for literally everyone else.