US aircraft losses mount in Iran war, with Jon Elmer

You are watching and listening to the electronic itifada. I am John Elmer. This is the resistance report on day 1 of Israel's genocide in Gaza. It's been 216 days since the US and Israel launched their war of aggression against Iran. And I am reporting this live on the afternoon of Thursday, October the 1st. We're going to take a look at some of the recent efforts to tally US uh losses in the Iran war. Let's take a look at some of the maps here. First, there has been no exchange of fire over the past two weeks since you last saw me in the uh in this in this war between the Americans and the Iranians. Um after my coverage of two shows ago about the tanker war that started, uh Iran responded to their tankers getting hit by a missile barrage on Mufa Salti air base in Jordan, which we'll cover again today um with some new visuals. Um so the tanker war has uh died down since uh the US plan was tanker for tanker. Um that is not happening um or hasn't happened since the retaliation by the Iranians. The Iranians have been consistent through this whole thing and I'm just going to reiterate that because of it. Um the chief aid to the commander-in-chief of the Iranian armed forces said earlier this week that the straight of Hormuz will never return to what it was before. The Islamic Republic of Iran will assume management of the strait of Hormuz and fully control it. That is in uh that matches with memorandum of understanding number four that Trump signed in Versailles in June. On this map that you're looking at here on the screen, the straight of Hormuz is on the right. The Babel Mandab into the Red Sea uh currently controlled by the many armed forces is on the left and the Arabian Sea uh is what you see down there. Last week, uh, Foreign Minister Abbasi was at the United Nations General Assembly in New York, and he offered something of an olive branch to the US, a 7-day timeline to reopen the Straight of Hormuz that can begin as soon as the US accepts this plan. If they accept it tomorrow, the plan starts tomorrow. We believe the US can take certain actions in four to five days. The straight can open on day six, and talks for the final deal can start on day seven. So, they're still offering diplomatic off-ramp for the US. Trump uh spat at that and uh but the Iranians are not stopping their military operations. Um and just while we were speaking there of the United Nations General Assembly, if you're just watching this and didn't see earlier in our show, we had Craig Mccyber on talking about uh the UN General Assembly and the clown show that went on there in really excellent uh uh form Craig was in. So definitely check that out. Let's look at the next slide here. Um you can see uh the where the ships go from the Persian Gulf on the left there. You can see dead center. Uh that's the straight of Hormuz they've got marked there and you can see the normal patterns of the straight of Hormuz before the Israeli American war of aggression. You can see the oil exiting through the straight of Hormuz. something like 20% of the world's uh overall stock, 30% of the uh oceanborn stock, uh 20% of the natural gas, uh at least all of the precursors, um and all that goes along with that, the fertilizers, and you can see how they go up and around the world there through the Babel Menddev, up through the Red Sea, Suez Canal, into the Mediterranean. You could see it going um to the east uh the passageway through the east to uh Asia and all of those are uh drastically reduced at this point. Um the Iranian leader Mosha Baham released a statement this week on the second anniversary of the assassination of Hzbollah chief Hassan Nisraallah and he described the bygone era where the two seas to Iran's south this is a quote the two seas to Iran south uh were a theater of activity for enemy forces but today because of the painful blows they have suffered at the hands of the courageous fighters and defenders of the straight of Hormuz they do not advance beyond the Arabian Sea and he said the day is near when the Arabian Sea too will be emptied of their presence. So he's speaking about the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman, which the Americans are afraid to operate in, although they are escorting ships with Marines on board those ships. We'll talk more about that as this show goes on today. Let's take a look at the next one because we're going to be talking about maps again uh today or talking about bases again today. Here's the map uh that shows those bases that does not show all the bases. It doesn't even show all the bases that we have covered on this show. Uh soon when we get our graphics department up and running, we will uh not have to use these uh halfmeasure maps that the Asian form press in this case. It's a nice clean map, but there's many more bases in Saudi Arabia, for example, than are what are being showed there. Obviously, we know there's more bases in Jordan. There's four more. Plus, there's the uh Marine Corps uh training base that was hit uh just in the south of Jordan. So these maps are incomplete uh to say the least. Uh but today we're going to be focusing in particular on camp Buring uh in Kuwait, Camp Arif John in Kuwait, Prince Sultan air base southeast of Riyad and the Moafal Salty air base in Jordan. That is the one that they have on the map there. Uh all of those spots are on the map there. In fact, and we know we've covered previously the destruction at um the fifth fleet naval base, the US's central command naval base in Bahrain, the naval support activity uh base has been destroyed in Qatar, the combined air operations center that ran the air war previously. It was destroyed on the first days. And I showed you a couple weeks ago the naval chief saying that you're not going back anytime soon to those bases. I I would be surprised if they ever go back to those bases, but no need to predict. We can just give you the information and you can uh uh assume for yourself what the outcome will be of these billions of dollars of bases that are now um in many of them are destroyed. Um so in this week we're going to take a look at some aircraft losses. Um let's look at the next slide. This is a downing of an uh of an MQ uh drone MQ1C drone. So, this is sometimes it's being identified as a predator, but it's not a predator. It's an MQ1C grey eagle. These are run by the US Army. Uh, and it's been shot down. I think they've gotten three of these now. And not quite sure if they're getting mixed in with the MQ9 tally, which is now up to 53, but in any case, we're talking about 50 plus drones destroyed um of this class of drone. Um, so more than $2 billion dollars of reapers have been destroyed. The US Air Force chief of staff told the House Armed Services Committee in May that the Reaper has been the most valuable player of the Iran war for the US. So the MVP is getting gutted and emptied uh well below a third of its stock uh completely destroyed and there's no replacements for uh this type of MQ9 drone. Uh let's look at the next slide. Um so here's the losses. Uh this was uh done by the war zone collecting uh admitted losses that have come up in two important reports. Congressional budget office report and Pentagon inspector general report. Both first time they have uh produced these reports. Um and they've added here at the war zone uh a couple of recent ones that were uh the numbers from the the budget office and from the inspector general were stale as soon as soon as they came out because the Iranians keep popping drones in the straight of Hormuz every uh you know multiple times a week and has been the case since the beginning of the war. Um that is where the concentration of it is and this doesn't include the radars that are destroyed. Um this is uh you're looking at 90 aircraft that have been damaged or destroyed in this war. Um and this does not include four additional Chinook helicopters that were um destroyed on the tarmac uh as well but haven't been verified according to uh the war zone. Although I saw the pictures and I would be confident to verify them. Uh I'm not sure exactly what they're waiting for for that confirmation. In any case, we're talking about 90 planes, and you can see them upper left. MQ9 Reaper drones up to 47 is now up to about 53. Um, the KC135 Strato tankers, these are aerial refueling aircraft. Um, nine of them damaged and destroyed. That E3 Sentry, we're going to take a look at that today. That's the first time an E3 Sentry has been shot down, uh, has been destroyed in combat, has been lost in combat from the US. And these are planes that are older than me. So they've been in every single uh American imperialist war, particularly since the end of the Cold War. Um, and they uh we'll we'll look more at those later. On the bottom left, you see the F-15 Strike Eagles. We know about three of them that were shot down by uh friendly fire by Kuwaiti pilots who turned himself into an ace by shooting down uh his um his American compatriots, probably trained by them as well. Um, but then we see the other eight uh strike eagles that were damaged on the runway that I reported on a couple weeks ago and the strike on Moaf Salty. We'll revisit that again today. You see the MC130J commandos. Those are the search and rescue combat search and rescue um uh C130s that were taken down that were destroyed on the uh runway or uh makeshift runway during the uh the when they were getting their pilots back that were shot down and the uh F-15 the pilot and the uh weapons service uh weapons systems officer that was shot down. In any case, you see the two A10 Warthogs. Those are close air support uh vehicles. Um and you're just talking about billions of dollars in destroyed infrastructure. We can see another attempt to do this uh in the next slide done by the Military Air Tracking Alliance. And again, similar, you're getting similar numbers for all these because we have proof of them. We have videos, we have satellite footage, we get occasionally soldiers tell us um information leaks out. But uh as I was saying at the beginning um or before we came on was that Pete Hegsath yesterday said that any this is the defense secretary for the US uh in charge of the military. Uh he said any kind of this this reporting reporting on damage uh at bases reporting on stock uh munition stockpiles was treasonous. Um, and so, uh, that's how the US is treating this information war, and that's why, uh, we've seen basically nothing but lies from SenCom throughout this entire war. And like I said just a moment ago, this does not include billions in radars that have been destroyed. Uh, let's take a look at number seven because also this week, we had seen this before, but this is a new picture that was given to CBS News by U soldiers. Again, the soldiers giving us these photos are the way this stuff is coming out. Um, and hopefully we're going to see more of it. If anyone wants to send them to us, we'd be happy to show them. But CBS published this. This is the E3 Century. This is the only one to be destroyed in combat ever. Uh, and when you see uh let me just say the this is what CBS said. The images were sent to CBS News by active service members. Um uh this and this service member said this major damage to our bases that hasn't been communicated to the American public. One deployed service member told CBS News, "We're standing there with our eyes closed getting punched in the face." Um and you can see this is the strike on this plane uh destroyed its radar tower, which you'll see in a moment. But this is a half a billion dollar plane. There's only 16 of them in uh operational use right now and there's only six of them deployed to uh this Iran war. So a significant loss. Um let's take a look at the next slide. You can see what it is. The US Air Force calls the E3 Century the world's premier command and control battlefield management aircraft. Um uh it's an airborne early warning and control system and awax and it is uh in the air to um essentially be eyes in the sky. It gets your radar up above uh the ground and gives you massive uh overview of the battle space. It coordinates between um between each uh each fighter jet. It can do missile defense. Um it's an allaround uh important aircraft. But what we're looking at here on the screen is the uh aerial refueling tanker that had been uh patched up. Uh and you can see that was one of the ones that I showed you of the dozen or so that were hit. And you can see the patch marks all the way along the front. So obviously hit by shrapnel and they got this plane back up on the uh back into the air. But if we can flip back one, can we go back one more to seven again and see? I just want to show you that the um that number seven they're calling damaged. They call it damaged to have that plane look like that. So in the uh the Congressional Budget Office report, damaged. Uh in the inspector general's report, damaged. Uh the plane is clearly uh obviously more than damaged. So thanks for going back there. Let's do uh number 10. We can see a closer up look at the holes um in the uh in the tankers. These are KC135s, aerial refueling tankers. These are critical to the war. They extend the range of the ground base um uh attack aircraft that come that are used in this war. And it's uh critical to have these flying. So this hit that um took out seven of them was a very significant strategic hit. Um, and we have, again, this is the way we're getting this information. We're getting it months later, and I've done this a bunch of times, but uh, we get it months later from the generals that are speaking at their own conferences. Um so the this comes from uh um this conference that this uh that we're was being speak the conference that was being uh addressed is the air and space forces space and cyber conference and the war zone visited that conference and heard from the head of the air mobility command. So, the person in charge of these KC-135s, and this is the description of when this was hit on the runway, uh, and this is a quote from the soldier um, from the airman. A KC135 ops crew is in the jet. The KC135 maintenance team is about to launch this jet. Unexpected red alarm. An attack warning. Everyone jumps in a bunker. After the barrage, the airmen emerged from their bunkers and checked out the plane. The aircraft is smoking, Tully said. There are holes in it and it's a fully loaded KC135. 200,000 pounds of jet fuel took 48 hours to drain out of the aircraft. Um, and this was at Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi. So, just to see those pictures there. Uh, let's go to 11. Um, this is the uh Congressional Research Service. So this is the this is what um Congress sees this kind of accounting and that's the accounting that I did before. Four uh F-15s, three from friendly fire and one from enemy fire that was shot down in Iran. Of course we know about that one. The F-35, the first time ever in combat F-35 was clipped, damaged, and had to take an emergency landing. The status of that plane has never been shown. Um but again, it's going in the damaged category. The A10 was damaged uh by being shot down. So um or sorry, they say that's destroyed. That's fair. The KC135s are the damaged ones. Seven damaged or destroyed, five damaged or destroyed uh in two separate uh incidents. There's the E3 early warning uh and control system, the Awax, half a billion dollars. You can see the helicopters and at the bottom the drones. And all of these numbers are out of date as soon as they're published. These were published at the end of August. Uh, and they're immediately out of date. So, let's take a look at number 12. This is what the soldiers sent in. Um, they sent in these uh pictures from this is Camp Buring in Kuwait. Um, and CBS says similar grim pictures were captured at Camp Buring, Kuwait, a major staging area for the US military in a post in the remote desert region in the far northwest of Kuwait. And if you see this next slide, you can see it's base housing. This is next slide shows intact base housing. And if we can flip back to the previous one, you can see it's the same thing. So, um, these base housings again, maybe they're all empty, but um, the way that the casualty counts come out, there's no way of verifying this. And that's part of the information war that the Americans have uh, undertaken basically to lie. Um, let's take a look at 14. You can see the destruction of this tent uh setup here. Some said this was the gym uh hit clearly hit by a ballistic missile strike there. Um and the US service member that sent these images in. Again, we had seen these images previously uh images of this destruction, but not these images. So, these images are all new. We've never seen them before. They were just published last week when you um before since you last saw me. Um so the US military service member who gave the the images described them and said these are not squirters getting through talking about the ballistic missiles. He said we're we're not defending these bases. We're just standing we're just standing and watching them get destroyed. Um so this is a major uh Camp Buring is a major uh war hub for the US from the uh war in Iraq. And it was one of those places that became kind of like a mini city where you could like get Pizza Hut and go to a movie um and do all all kinds of trappings of American uh culture such as it is uh in these bases in these city basically little mini citystates uh sovereign territory inside the country of Kuwait. Let's take a look at the next one. You can see Camp Arif John. Uh here again, base housing clearly being shown uh ballistic missile strike that ended that base housing. Possible that they're all uh evacuated, but uh it's hard to believe that at each of these um each of these strikes, there's just nobody on these bases because these are the bases they stayed on. These are the bases that they in effect defended. um they consolidated onto these bases as opposed to spreading out across all of the 15 plus bases that they could be at. So um that's what we see here from Camp Arif John. Again, new photos, fresh photos of old operations. These are from July. Um let's take a look at the next one in the straight of Hormuz for a minute and talk a little bit about the tanker war. Um the US promised tanker for tanker. That was their big thing. I covered that a couple shows ago. You can always find the old shows um on the resistance report uh playlist on our YouTube channel. Um but there was a they they the US promised tanker for tanker. If the Iranians fire on uh on tankers then the US will sink Iranian tankers. So that happened. There was a spade of those. Um but then after the Iranian tankers were set were sunk, the Iranians attacked Muafakal Salty air base with a barrage of ballistic missiles. Uh and there hasn't been any more sinking of Iranian ships since then. And we also know and got confirmation this week that US uh Marines and sailors are on board these ships escorting them through uh we'll need to know more about exactly what they're doing on board. They're not talking about that. Again, it's another one of the things they're covering up for no particular reason. The Iranians obviously know the Americans are on board those ships and that's why they're firing on them. Uh and then we're told in uh when we read the newspaper that their civilian uh their civilian ships uh being fired on and hless sailors just being uh attacked with the US using uh human shields to get these to get oil to market because it's a a catastrophe for the world that basically were on the precipice of uh and even Trump has admitted that. Um, let's take a look at number uh 18 here because I got I showed you so many of these maps, but this is from Oman. This is a view I'd never seen before. Um, and I just wanted to show it to you. This is the southern uh corridor. This is the northern tip of Oman that you're seeing these islands and inlets and these fjords. Um, this is part of the southern route um that the Americans are escorting ships through. Uh, and the next slide gives you another good sense, a bit wider angle of it. um just really remarkable uh geography that I've shown you on top on top of maps in all kinds of different ways, but this was just starkly um interesting shot from an Alazer documentary shot in the in the straight. And the way that the Americans are doing it, there's they're running these convoys dark with their AIS off. They're running them through the Ammani channel. Well, they're giving them escort by Apache helicopters and fighter jets that can shoot down can attempt to shoot down drones uh that are launched at it. And then you have Marines uh on boarding crews on board providing uh whatever they can on board the ships because commercial shipping wants no part of the straight of Hormuz. And until commercial shipping wants to be in the straight of Hormuz, uh this economic oil shock um that portends a global depression, it it is still uh it's still on the table until we have commercial vessels feeling safe enough to travel through that. And the only way that that is going to happen is under Iranian control. Um let's take a look at the next one because in this area uh that you just saw, the Iranians captured an underwater autonomous underwater vehicle um an unmanned underwater vehicle. This is a Remis 600 uh that they captured and they said this is what the Navy said. IRGC Navy through a coordinated and complex operation utilizing intelligence surveillance and electronic warfare fighters managed to trap and advanced unmanned underwater vehicle belonging to the terrorist US military which was operate operating for espionage purposes in the straight of Hormuz in Iran. The underwater vehicle is an advanced submersible named the Remis 600 which was captured as a prize by our fighters and is now in the possession of our forces specialist for data retrieval. It's probably looking for mines. It's a drone. It's a disposable drone. Again, the US says the MVP of the uh air war is the drones because they can get shot down and nobody gets killed. They can say the same things about these. a lot of chatter about like the Iranians can uh reverse engineer these things. I wouldn't want to overstate that too much. Um I'm going to show you in a moment uh another uh another remis being captured. But first, let me just say that the United States Central Command denied the Iranian claims shortly after this footage emerged, saying in a statement to Alazer, Sentcom spokesman Tim Hawkins said, "The US has quote positive control over all of our operational drone assets." So, your lying eyes, your lying eyes saw that one. But in any case, in terms of uh reverse engineering, they've had many years to do that because let's look a take a look at this. Yemeni capture of a Reheis 600 uh in the Red Sea. This is uh Yemeni military media uh showing us this. This is the US Naval Institute showing the Yemeni uh military media footage. Um this was captured in uh Yemeni waters in the Red Sea in early 2018. So any kind of reverse engineering uh has long been done on this device. So, I don't think the one that was most recently caught will give uh too much uh benefit to what they have already had from this captured uh vessel. Let's look at number 22 and get back to this. Um this is an NBC headline that says, "Sus Marines injured in recent Iranian attack. The previously unreported attack occurred September 14th when Iran struck a ship US forces were on in the straight of Hormuz, sources say." And this is what the Washington Dine says by NBC. Eight US Marines were injured two weeks ago when an Iranian cruise missile attacked the ship that they were operating on in the straight of Hormuz. According to three US officials, the Marines were not seriously hit hurt. Just smoke inhalation and traumatic brain injuries. Um, one seven of them were enlisted and one was an officer. And the US Marines h have been on these ships escorting them. It was known that they were going to do that going back to the beginning of the the days after October 7th in the fear that Iran might capture some of these ships that Marines were escorting these ships. Um but we have they haven't talked about doing that in this stage of the war. Fox News earlier had confirmed that oil tankers crossing the southern corridor uh of the straight of of Hormuz are crewed by US soldiers. Um, US Marines would probably be more uh, accurate in that sentence, but um, they were struck one ship, another ship, obviously they're being struck repeatedly. Uh, the incident occurred around the Straight of Hormuz involved four Iranian drones and at least one cruise missile. Um, some other US personnel were also on board. So now we're seeing these reports leak out that there are soldiers on these ships that Iran is firing at through the straight of Hormuz either without civilians or using civilians as human shields on these uh operations. Let's take a look at the next one because this is another thing that's happening in the media. This kind of leaking out of casualties. Here we look at a Washington Post report from last week that says uh more US troops have died amid Iran war than Pentagon has disclosed publicly. Officials who spoke to the post expressed frustration that the additional loss of life in the Middle East is not reflected in the Defense Department's casualty casualty database. The Washington Post reported that more than that more American service members have died in the Middle East during the Iran conflict than the Pentagon has disclosed officially. Officials have said that as many as five military fatalities are not reflected in the DCS. um that is the defense casualty uh assessment uh defense casualty analysis system uh and those discrepancies remain. Defense Secretary Pete Hegsth claimed that the Washington Post article was inaccurate and disgusting. So that's how they're treating basic information about the the well-being of their troops that are under in theory under uh uh under the Department of Defense uh run by Pete Hgsth. So he's calling that disgusting. Um, anyways, people talk about the cover up of casualties in the US. And a lot of people say it's impossible. You can't cover up casualties. You're going to hear about them eventually. The families will speak up and say they were never acknowledged. And that all may be true in the long run, but in the day by day, lying about your casualties uh on month-long delays um allows for there to just be obuscation of when those attacks happened, the efficacy of those attacks, um the ability for the Americans to defend themselves. All of that stuff is just taken off the table when they're just lying about these casualties. They're moving them from category to category and just playing games with the numbers. um until the war is over and the numbers probably by the end of it maybe they will not have lied about numbers but at this current moment there's no question that they're doing that um and that's what we see here you can see in the next slide as well a week later same Pentagon quietly adds dozens of tally dozens to the tally of troops wounded amid the Iran war with the addition of 29 sailors and eight marines um the total number of personnel wounded since the start of the host still has risen to 861 data shows and that was just from uh earlier this week. So they're um adding operations that were weeks ago into this database uh and makes it difficult to track because if they released these numbers um properly um and how they previously did I mean they used to have Pentagon briefings that they don't have anymore. they just have the the hegsth clown shows like he did yesterday uh state of war or whatever. He called everybody treasonous and insulted, you know, 40% of act act unlisted service members during the speech and whatnot. Uh but that is just that is the Trump administration all around, right? Everybody knows that. Okay, let's take a look at the next one. Wall Street Journal, the US is burning through its supply of interceptors to counter Iran's attacks. Right? This is something we said before the war started was going to be an issue. But this is reporting on the show that I showed you um like six or eight videos a couple weeks ago of this attack on Moafal Salty air base. And the US here is admitting that they expended 70 or more patriots and thads to blunt a recent attack on Jordan. And this comes out a week after all of those videos were published. And the source for this story is not the videos that we all saw throwing, you know, somewhere between 80 and 100 uh Pack 3 Patriot interceptor missiles at 20 Jordanian ballistic missiles. This is from US officials. US officials say the US military uh you know this is that uh officials said quote unquote uh newspaper reporting. It's not. It's like they can't look at the evidence that is being provided. Uh, in any case, 70 is a is an undercount, but we're going to you're going to get a chance on this show to count for yourself how many $4 million Patriot Interceptors are launched and how many $15 million FAD uh fad uh interceptors are launched. Um, let's take a look at 26. These are the two launchers that we're talking about just because I'm going to show you the video next, but I want you to see what these are that are launching um the THAAD system there. You can see on the top um with the launcher system. Each battery has several of them for a THAAD. And for the Patriots, they can have half a dozen or more uh hooked up to the same radar systems, but half a dozen is usually generally the uh accepted number. and pack 3es can go in 4x4 into those launchers. So 16 launcher, 16 interceptors per launcher, six launchers. So it's basically a hundred if you were to empty the clip on those six. Um and these are images from the Wall Street Journal. We take a look at the next one. You can see what the PAC 3 interceptor looks like when it's going up. Um because you're not going to see that in the video that I'm going to show you, but you're going to hear it. And each time you hear it launched and see it go up, uh, you can count for yourself how many in this barrage. And this is just in one video. And this video I didn't show you originally because it didn't surface. It surfaced about 2 weeks after this attack. Um, obviously from a soldier when you see the location of it. Um but these uh uh this is a pack 3 being launched and current operational doctrine according to Loheed Martin who makes it is that you fire two interceptors for each incoming ballistic missile. But we've been watching this entire war they're firing half a dozen at each one and sometimes we don't even see the missile that they're talking about being uh launched at. Um, so these are hit tokill um hit tokill missiles and if they don't hit then they self-destruct in the air. So that's what you're also going to see on this next video. You're going to see them go up and explode and you might think, "Hey, that's an interception." And the Israelis uh they do that with their uh Iron Dome. They say every time you see a poof, it's an interception. But it's not. It's the self-detonation of the missile that didn't hit anything. $4 million self-detonating. Um, so these are from the um the next uh video, just let me set it up for one second, is from the September 8th attack on Wafakal Salty Air Base. Again, Jordan said 20 ballistic missiles were fired. The IRGC said they fired those missiles because of the tanker fortanker Americans sinking their tankers. Uh, and no tankers have been sunk since this attack. The pre-war stocks, we've talked about this a number of times, but let's keep talking about it. The pre-war Patriot stocks were 2,300 total. Uh by April that number was 1,30, so well below 50%. July about 750. So what what is that? Less than a quarter. About a quarter uh left. And the pre-war Thads 450. July about 230. And they're talking about launching a hundred of the Patriot 3es uh the pack 3es. and they're talking about dozen um of thads. Thads are about $15 million per interceptor, especially to replace them. Um they might have been uh sold originally in the uh 11 or 12 million per, but 15 million is a reasonable uh number to pick. Um and it's a very expensive proposition, and there is no alternative to these two. The PAC 3 and the THAAD are the only two uh ballistic missile s anti-bballistic missile systems except on warships. The warships run the Aegis systems and they use standard missiles and those are even crazier costs and they've been trying to save those. Apparently their stocks of those are somewhat better um than the Patriot stocks and they're not fired at with the reckless abandon. Um, but the uh the THAAD interceptor and the pack uh four interceptors are 15 and 4 million, but the SM3s are between 10 and 30 million and the SM6s are at least 10 million. And these are fired from the warships that are out at sea. Um, so there is no alternative. When these run out, they run out. And what you're talking about, uh, the numbers that they're saying here, 750 were left in July. Well, they just launched a hundred more. So now you're talking 650 left. How many days of battle is that? If for 20 ballistic missiles you're getting 100 Patriot interceptors. Just basic math. That's seven days of engagement uh left on those. And for the THAADs, they launched a dozen THADs um probably some from Israel to intercept those uh ballistic missiles at Mouafaka Sulti air base which failed because the missiles hit the uh the base. And this was I talked to you about this a few weeks ago when they said roughly eight uh F-15s were damaged or destroyed on the runway and another A-10 Warthog closeair air support uh aircraft was hit um on the apron as well. So these are just not sustainable operations. But when we ceue up this video in just a moment, I want you to watch um the what the Americans say are at least 70 uh interceptors being fired. Um, and at that rate, uh, of those 70 interceptors, we're going to basically watch half a billion dollars, uh, be fired in less than one minute. This video has audio in, so we're going to, uh, we're going to watch it together with full audio, uh, to accompany it. All of the missiles going up. These are Patriot Pack 3es being fired from Jordan. Jordan has their own batteries as well, so they could be using multiple batteries here. Uh, and the Americans are only admitting to the 70 plus from theirs. Um, knowing that the um that the Jordanians fired off a couple of their uh one of their batteries as well, several launchers could have put the same number uh in the air. So really the long range forecast for the Americans ability to defend their bases in the Middle East to carry out this war that they keep threatening after the midterm elections as if the Iranians care about the midterm elections in the US. Um the numbers just don't add up. They could not fight, for example, they could not fight the war that they just fought. They could not fight that again because well below 50% of their munition stocks are gone. So whatever we saw from fe from March and April, it was really only 40 days. That could not be done again. So whatever the Americans are talking about um that they're going to destroy the civilization uh of Iran, Iran is going to destroy all of their bases and empty out their munition magazines. So uh all of that to set up this video uh that we're going to watch here. Number 28. Uh this is a ballistic missile attack by the IRGC versus the US and Jordanian air base Moaka Sultti which is the main uh command node for this war. Heat. So, that's in fact only three batteries that we're seeing there uh launching. And you can see you can count them yourself. There's 70 just in that video alone, just from those launchers. So, I think that video uh like I said, it it surfaced a couple weeks later clearly by a soldier, somebody who's on the base given the proximity of of all of the launchers because we saw three launchers there. So, it's got to be on the base and that's the only way we can get these outgoing shots. We saw I showed you shots from uh civilians from distance. Um, but to just see hear each one $4 million, $4 million one after another. And what you just saw was half a billion dollars, $500 million in interceptors shot in minutes. And for one base and for one barrage of 20 missiles, um, this is not a sustainable war for the US and it's uh one of the reasons uh that I don't believe that this war can continue uh at this rate. And the Iranians have this uh they know this too. Um and the old right that's why at the beginning of the war the Americans were saying oh we knocked out all of their uh ballistic missile launchers. They can't launch missiles. And that was just a lie at that time that served them um 6 months later. It's just idiotic to say those kind of things like the Israelis did too. They said that they knocked out uh 60% of the launchers in just a couple of days. Um now that's clearly not the case. Um, so this has been the resistance report for day 1,091 of Israel's genocide in Gaza.