Although al-Abadi and other Iraqi and U.S. officials haven't attached a dollar sign to the lost weaponry and vehicles, a back-of-the-envelope calculation of those losses might look something like this:
2,300 Humvee armored vehicles @ $70,000 per copy. Total: $16 million
40 M1A1 Abram tanks @ $4.3 million per copy. Total: $172 million
52 M198 Howitzer mobile gun systems @ $527,337 per copy. Total: $2.7 million
74,000 Army machine guns @ $4,000 per copy. Total: $29 million
The grand total comes to $219.7 million, but experts say those losses represent a fraction of the many hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of U.S.-supplied military equipment that has fallen into ISIS's hands and is being used against the U.S. and allied forces on the ground in Iraq and neighboring Syria.
I find it kind of hard to believe that the government only pays 70 grand per up-armored Humvee personally.
2,300 Humvee armored vehicles @ $70,000 per copy. Total: $16 million
40 M1A1 Abram tanks @ $4.3 million per copy. Total: $172 million
52 M198 Howitzer mobile gun systems @ $527,337 per copy. Total: $2.7 million
74,000 Army machine guns @ $4,000 per copy. Total: $29 million
Killing infidels with weapons they paid for: Priceless
160 172 27 290 --- $649 million