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US Democratic Congressman Ed Case said on Tuesday that the United States has lost 39 aircraft since the start of the war with Iran on February 28, citing a report from a US defence publication.
Case made the remarks during a special Senate committee hearing while questioning Pentagon Chief Financial Officer Jay Hurst about the extent of damage suffered during the conflict.
“We’ve lost about 39 aircraft, according to a report in The War Zone, and that’s an old one that’s almost one month old,” Case said, asking Hurst whether the Pentagon had calculated “a retention cost on all those aircraft.”
Hurst replied: “There are costs there, sir, but I want to get back to you in writing and what they specifically are, because, as you can imagine, repair of aircraft is something that’s very hard to calculate.” “We want to do a full diagnosis of the aircraft before we estimate that cost,” he added.
