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\nUS 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.
\nCase 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.
\n\u201cWe\u2019ve lost about 39 aircraft, according to a report in The War Zone, and that\u2019s an old one that\u2019s almost one month old,\u201d Case said, asking Hurst whether the Pentagon had calculated \u201ca retention cost on all those aircraft.\u201d
\nHurst replied: \u201cThere 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\u2019s very hard to calculate.\u201d \u201cWe want to do a full diagnosis of the aircraft before we estimate that cost,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
washington 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":546400,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-546380","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"yoast_head":"\n