Overview
- CSIS pegs the opening 100 hours at about $3.7 billion, or roughly $891 million per day, driven by intensive strikes and air defense interceptors.
- Researchers say about $3.5 billion of those costs were not budgeted, including an estimated $3.1 billion to replace expended weapons and roughly $350 million for losses and repairs.
- U.S. forces fired more than 2,000 munitions, with replenishment projected to rise by about $758 million per day, as officials signal a shift to cheaper ordnance as defenses degrade.
- Reporting documents significant equipment damage, with Anadolu tallying about $2.52 billion regionwide, including a hit to an AN/FPS-132 radar in Qatar and the loss of three F-15s.
- The Pentagon has offered no aggregate total and has not requested new funding, as congressional and media sources cite about $1 billion per day and Penn Wharton scenarios range from $40 billion to $95 billion over two months while industry readies production increases.