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President Donald Trump Resumption of the Iranian conflict With days of missile strikes, US intelligence officials now estimate the death toll Total military cost of war The Pentagon’s cost could exceed $100 billion, according to two people directly familiar with the matter.
Officials were tracking the total cost of Operation Epic Fury to be in the range of $50 billion to $100 billion at the end of May, consistent with confidential congressional estimates that put costs so far at about $80 billion.
The Trump administration did not reveal its estimates of the cost of the Iran war. In June, the White House submitted a request for $88 billion to cover some of the war’s costs, but even that number is an underestimate, people say.
One reason a final cost is not available is that the Pentagon is still deciding whether to replace all the planes destroyed or damaged beyond repair during the conflict, the people say.
If the Pentagon decides not to replace certain aircraft, defense officials told lawmakers they would not ask for money for it and therefore would not factor it into the overall cost of the war, the people say.
A War Ministry official said that detailed details had been provided for this report Inner ring“We don’t have anything else to announce at the moment.”
The nonpartisan Congressional Research Service said in a Report on May 20 Compiled using only publicly available reports that the United States has lost at least 17 manned aircraft and 25 drones since the beginning of the conflict.
The CRS report also showed that the United States is losing an increasing number of drones, which are not easy to replace. Among the 25 missing drones was an MQ-4C Triton, a Navy high-altitude surveillance aircraft. Which costs more than 600 million dollars For each airframe.
The cost of repairing US bases in the region, some of which were severely damaged by Iran’s launches of retaliatory missiles and unidirectional attack drones in response to US strikes, will also be high.
Defense officials told lawmakers behind closed doors that they did not consider the costs of repair — and may never do so — if the United States ultimately decides to close those bases because they are too vulnerable to Iranian attacks, officials say.
Iran has repeatedly managed to hit several major bases in the Middle East in retaliatory strikes, including Headquarters of the US Navy’s Fifth Fleet In naval support activity in Bahrain, which the Pentagon has not publicly acknowledged.
The only actual cost publicly presented by a senior defense official was from then-acting Pentagon Comptroller Jay Hurst, who testified at an oversight hearing in May that the cost of the war was prohibitive. It rose to about $29 billion.
On Tuesday, during his nomination hearing to become permanent comptroller, Hearst declined to provide an updated figure but said the $29 billion was mainly munitions and costs such as fuel associated with having two US aircraft carriers sailing around the Middle East.
Operation Golden Eagle has arrived.
The Trump administration on Tuesday launched a clearinghouse that will attempt to identify and patch any software vulnerabilities before malicious actors can infiltrate them using… The most powerful artificial intelligence models.
An administration official said Inner ring The clearinghouse, called Golden Eagle, will be run by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, which will itself use artificial intelligence models that are not publicly available to identify vulnerabilities.
It represents the first major application of Executive order issued by Trump on June 2 It aims to create a framework for overseeing the rapidly growing threat to advanced AI models.
