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To: Blood of Tyrants
I found this from CNBC:

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.

9 posted on 06/04/2015 12:07:10 PM PDT by RC one (Militarized law enforcement is just a politically correct way of saying martial law enforcement.)
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To: RC one

•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


16 posted on 06/04/2015 12:17:16 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: RC one
16 million, 2.7 million and 29 million are too low by a factor of 10.
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172
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290
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$649 million

39 posted on 06/04/2015 1:59:20 PM PDT by ArcadeQuarters ("Immigration Reform" is ballot stuffing)
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