Boeing E-3 Sentry

The number includes both aircraft and helicopters as well as drones.

On the list are some of the Pentagon's most prized assets, including an F-35A fighter jet and an E-3 Sentry, a jet with a large radar dome atop the fuselage used for target tracking and airspace management.

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More than half were MQ-9 Reaper drones, while the F-35 fighter jet and E-3 Sentry surveillance aircraft and eight lightly damaged F-15 fighters were also included.

When they say lightly damaged, it reminds me like right now what they're saying in Saudi Arabia.

They're saying the King Khalid Airport was not struck by the Houthis.

So again, now, after this attack, you have crews, you have maintainers emerging from bunkers, and you have a ramp with, again, I'm envisioning multiple aircraft that have been struck, again, based upon what we're seeing from the inspector general report with the number of damages as well as social media that's been out there.

So again, if we make an assumption that this one we're talking about is at Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia, which had an attack back in March, losing an E-3, damaging numerous KC-135s, potentially some C-130s, et cetera.

The ramp is riddled with damaged aircraft.

I would envision that there's probably fire, and now you have planes that are leaking fuel all over the place.

The other plane it had a midair with was an additional KC-135 which was able to return to base.

But we can still see an additional KC-135 outside of this mishap, this accident, that was lost to hostile fire.

We also lost an E-3 Sentry, which I mentioned before.

Now, social media, that one had it at Prince Sultan Air Base, which was destroyed on the ground.

But the US has already taken some very big financial hits from this war, but mostly around the Middle East, its bases in the Middle East, up and down the six Gulf states, in Jordan and Iraq.

And the worst of those was on March the 27th when a precision-guided Iranian strike hit Prince Sultan Air Base just outside Riyadh and cut in half an E3 Sentry AWACS plane.

Now, one of those costs just over half a billion dollars.

The US can't sustain these kind of financial hits indefinitely.

It's straight up because their evidence is just so weird.

They basically said 14 satellites passed over the site in Saudi Arabia where the E3 AWACS was hit.

Um, but the things like that's the, like the entire, like Russian, like space born ISR complex.

Like basically they have, yeah, they have satellites in orbit.

The report said that the images showed damaged buildings and an aircraft at three bases in Kuwait and a Saudi base hosting U.S. assets, some of which were evacuated.

One photo appears to show an E3 Sentry surveillance aircraft valued at $270 million, damaged in late March at Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia, the report noted.

That's that's not a little bit of money.

Well, these bases have been irreparably damaged, irreparably.

So far during the war in Iran, the United States has lost sixty-five aircraft at an estimated cost of four billion dollars.

Now, the bulk of that are the forty-seven MQ-9 Reapers that have been destroyed, but there are some other significant ones in here as well, like the E-3 Sentry here on the screen that the government technically list as damaged, but come on, that thing's cut right in half.

So let's get into the details.

Now, this is all coming out of a report just put together by The War Zone, and they based that off of a couple of reports released by the US government in recent weeks.

It sounds like he, uh, was able to return the aircraft over friendly territory before ejecting safely, and the aircraft, aircraft did crash.

A second A-10 sustained damage on the ground in Jordan during the IRGC's latest round of strikes.

The most expensive single crewed loss, according to the war zone, was the E-3 Sentry, which is currently out of production.

They say they can only be replaced by the E-7 Wedgetail, a program that the Pentagon recently revived at a unit cost the CBO estimates to be half a billion dollars.