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Source: People's Republic of China – State Council News
WASHINGTON, March 12 (Xinhua) — Pentagon officials told U.S. lawmakers that the United States spent more than $11.3 billion in the first six days of its military operation against Iran, The New York Times (NYT) reported on Wednesday.
This figure is considered the most comprehensive preliminary estimate received by Congress to date. It does not include many associated costs, such as the deployment of military equipment and personnel before the initial strikes, the newspaper reported, citing three people familiar with a classified briefing between the Pentagon and Congress.
Lawmakers expect that figure to rise significantly as the Pentagon continues to tally costs accumulated during the first week of the operation, the report said.
The US used AGM-154 precision-guided glide bombs for the initial strikes, each costing between $578,000 and $836,000, the NYT reported. The US Navy acquired approximately 3,000 of these bombs approximately 20 years ago.
As previously reported by the NYT and the Washington Post, Pentagon officials told Congress that the military spent about $5.6 billion on ammunition in just the first two days of the US-Israeli operation, which began on February 28. –0–
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