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Ed Case: “We've lost about 39 aircraft according to a report in the…”

Featuring: Ed Case, Democratic | U.S. House Hawaii, 1st Congressional District

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Published | Video Starts at 01:29

Yeah, I'm most confident in our projections on munitions costs. That's the easiest thing to calculate. So that number sounds a little high to me for that stage of the war. Okay. We've lost about 39 aircraft according to a report in the war zone. And that's an old one. That's almost one month old. Give a replacement cost on all those aircraft. Now, understanding that some of that aircraft is not replaceable, but presumably you would have to replace it with some kind of capacity. (01:29–01:34)

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