The attacks have been able to disrupt shipping and keep the U.S. and its allies tied down, frustrating the Navy’s decades-old mission of keeping open the region’s critical sea lanes.

American military says it has spent about $1 billion fighting Ansar Allah to support Israel’s Gaza War. It has conducted more than 450 strikes and intercepting 200 drones and missiles.

U.S. officials worry that the conflict is simply not sustainable.

“Their supply of weapons from Iran is cheap and highly sustainable, but ours is expensive and our logistics tails are long. We are playing whack-a-mole, and they are playing a long game.”

https://archive.ph/VbNKQ

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    “Their supply of weapons from Iran is cheap and highly sustainable, but ours is expensive and our logistics tails are long."

    How can they understand this in this context but absolutely not when talking about Ukraine or China?

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      Lockheed said their next generation hyper tactical liberty ballistic precision missile will cost $36,000,000 each because it’s too sophisticated to explain. We have no choice but to accept their price

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      This is a very well understood and planned for weakness you absolute dolls, you nimrods. If it takes a $500k or more missile to take out a 10k or less drone, that drone being shot down is still a win.

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        A french naval officer was quoted at the beginning of Prosperity Guardian as saying “if you use a $5m missile to shoot down a $5 thousand drone, then in fact it is your missile which has been shot down by the drone.”