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US Loses 25% of MQ-9 Reaper Fleet in Iran War, Losses Top $1.3 Billion

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US Loses 25% of MQ-9 Reaper Fleet in Iran War, Losses Top $1.3 Billion

✈️ ATTRITION — A quarter of America's Reaper fleet gone; nobody announced it. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: 45 MQ-9s lost means $1.3B in hardware and a shrinking ISR-strike capacity. Reapers can't be replaced fast — production lines don't surge overnight. With Iran's drone sensor net already documented, manned aircraft now bear more of the load. The unspoken question: at what attrition rate does the US air campaign become unsustainable?

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