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Missile defense for $5 billion a day:
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The battlefield costs add up quickly. Kavanagh estimates that the U.S. “easily” spent more than $10 billion on air-defense systems in the current war’s first 48 hours. That is largely attributed to the high-end weapons systems, such as the THAAD ($12.7 million per interceptor missile) and the Patriot ($3.7 million per missile), used to strike down attacking drones and missiles. Asymmetric economics: The defense systems cost orders of magnitude more than the Iranian weapons they’re shooting down. One common Iranian drone, the Shahed-136, costs roughly $35,000 and can be quickly produced. In the first few days of the conflict, Iran launched as many as 2,000 drones, most of them Shaheds.

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