Blogger’s Note: These are the “confirmed” losses – a number which is conservative in nature – in reality, the losses are considered much higher. The US and Israel militarily trade on maintaining complete Air Superiority (contested) and Air Supremacy (an uncontested dominance). At the moment, when it comes to air-power – the US and Israel hold a contested Air Superiority. The Israeli Air-power is basically US warplanes transplanted to another regime. Yes – Iran has complicated this narrative by efficiently occupying the niche of missile and drone technology – a relatively cheaper way of contesting the same air-space. Although the US has Air Superiority – it is not able to effectively destroy the Iranian launchers or the Iranian stockpile of missiles and drones. At least not yet – but I suspect the Iranian ability to wage war is being terminally corroded – as the US is able to build and replenish their supplies without limit (a process that actually boosts the US economy by creating jobs).
Iran, despite the sanctions preventing it from trading, building-up wealth, and importing resources, developed its missile and drone forces over many decades. Iran is now using-up all these supplies whilst the US is destroying the infrastructure of Iran – that very same infrastructure which built the missiles in the first place – no infrastructure – no missiles. On the face of it, these US losses are only significant from the perspective of the US (and Israel) rarely losing their expensive warplanes during the asymmetric wars they start. The only exception I can recall is the events of 1973, which involved the USSR secretly providing the Palestinians with sophisticated surface-to-air missiles. These Soviet missiles destroyed the Israeli Airforce in around 20 minutes during the Yom Kippur War. The problem was that a United Arab Army lost to the Israelis on the battlefield. ACW (7.4.2026)
An extensive array of U.S. military aircraft, ranging from fighters, helicopters to unmanned systems, have been destroyed or damaged during the “Operation Epic Fury”, multiple sources tracking the war have shown.
“Total losses are estimated to exceed $2 billion, with replacement costs potentially even higher,” said Egypt’s Intel Observer, an open-source intelligence account active on X.
An online update from the Pentagon indicated that 13 U.S. troops have been killed and 365 others wounded in the war as of April 3.
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