• TheOctonaut@piefed.zip
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    9 hours ago

    Why on earth are your estimates based only on bombs sent specifically by the US, specifically since the start of the war?

    You did so much useless maths based on such a ridiculous premise.

    Do you think Israel started the war without a stockpile of weapons? Or are you one of these Americans who thinks Palestine sprung into existence on October 7th?

    • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      5 hours ago

      Those are the single biggest bombs around and the US is the single biggest supplier around.

      Feel free to explain how Israel could get hold of an extra 3550x worth of the equivalent of those biggest conventional bombs they got from the US for the supposed 25 megatons used in Gaza and the 4970x worth of them for the supposed 35 megatons used in Tehran.

      I mean, if the difference between my numbers and those megaton claims was only 10x or so, there is plenty of room in the assumptions used in my extrapolation from the 2000lb bomb numbers to an estimated order of size for the total explosive power dropped to possibly match, but it’s not, it’s in total more than 8,000x off.

      By your theory Israel had the equivalent of over 119 million of the largest conventional bombs around stockpiled and managed to drop or fire on Tehran alone at least 69 million bombs (the “at least” number is if they had used only 2000lb bombs - it’s a lot more if they used more common 500lb and 200lb ones and missiles).