Iran War Cost Tracker

TSiege

Cost is not the first thing I care about in war, but I felt like this is a useful site for tracking the money we're lighting on fire in order to pursue this conflict Civilian costs are real, unjustified, and incalculable.

martythemaniak

Why is the US at war?

bawolff

Wouldn't some of these costs be present either way? Without a war US would still have aircraft carriers, they would just be floating somewhere else. On the other side, it seems like this is not tracking interceptor costs (presumably due to it being classified), which have certainly been used extensively and are extremely expensive. For that matter i doubt we have a very clear picture of how much ordinance has been used in general. [To be clear, im not doubting war is very expensive]

butILoveLife

We better get a liberal democratic Iran government out of this. We better remove and halt nuclear powers for the rest of my life. I suppose pick either, and it was successful. My personal polymarket says we wont get either. Trump and Israel ruin their reputation. But reputation matters close to 0 in international relations, which is why they don't care.

roughly

Next time someone asks how we're going to pay for, eg, free school lunches, keep this site in mind.

FrustratedMonky

Wow. That escalated quickly.

joecool1029

This seems really low considering one of the early warning radars taken out cost around $1bil on its own.... and it's possible a second one was at least damaged. (one in Qatar the other in Bahrain)

goestoo

Why are the fonts so small? I have a hard time reading anything.

hybrid_study

https://bsky.app/profile/rbreich.bsky.social/post/3mg4ige7o7...

jmyeet

There are a bunch of videos showing how expensive it is to fire certain weapons eg [1]. Not only are there our direct costs but we're also supplying several allies with munitions and weapon systems and paying for them ourselves. Also, yes carrier groups exist anyway, but operating them in a combat zone halfway around the world is way more expensive. Operation Epstein Fury [sic] is a giant white elephant and I think more Americans should know how much this is costing as well as why we're doing it, which is simply to support American imperialism with a lie similar to the IRaq WMD lie and that is that Iran is "weeks away" from nuclear weapons, a lie that's been told and propagated since at least 1992 [2]. President Eisenhower warned of the dangers of the expanding military-industrial complex in his 1961 farewell address [3]. Every bomber, every plane, every missile has an eye-watering cost when you put it int erms of schools, houses or healthcare. The recent ICE budget, for example, could've ended homelessness. Not for the year. Forever. Israel begged every president since Reagan to invade Iran. They all declined. Until now. And many suspect we're going to run out of anti-missile munitions long before Iran runs out of ballistic missiles. Just remember, every used munition eneds to be replaced. That's a new contract and new profit opportunity. It's why in so many post-WW2 conflicts you'll find American weapons on both sides. [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6mWI8Q6IwA [2]: https://www.tiktok.com/@therecount/video/7612744750713589023 [3]: https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/president-dwigh...

stopbulying

Could add: Civilian casualty ratio by party (Civilian casualty ratios in recent conflicts and declared wars)

tokyobreakfast

How much money was set on fire for Ukraine? Where does that fall in relation on the righteousness rubric?

rkal23

Maybe it will be offset by selling LNG at 50% higher prices to the dumb Europeans. Blowing up Nordstream was the first step, Qatar stopping LNG production the second. Perhaps take Greenland while the EU is completely dependent.

hk__2

*for the US.

stopbulying

United States involvement in regime change: 1952–1953: Iran [BP], 2026: Iran https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_r... 2025 United States strikes on Iranian nuclear sites https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_United_States_strikes_on_... 2026 Iran massacres https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Iran_massacres 2026 Iran conflict https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Iran_conflict

fishingisfun

the lives lost though. the children killed.

t1234s

Which contractor is selling the most munitions? LM, Raytheon, etc..

benj111

I'd rather have a tracker to show how close the Orange One is to his coveted Peace Prize.

RobRivera

Oh boy - defense accounting I LOVE this game. Quick quick, give me a quote on the coffee maker on the AWACS.

Stromgren

I saw the cost of the three downed planes somewhere else and thought the price was huge. Now I see that it’s comparable to “First Tomahawk salvo”.