Cost of Combat Air Losses in Vietnam

[Hood]

I came across this interesting document and since I've never seen this in published form, thought I'd share it here as it may be of some interest to someone?

 

[Dynoman]

With the highest losses on the chart for F-105 and F-100 aircraft, I wonder how many of these may have fallen during Wild Weasel missions. The F-4's have the next highest losses and they too served in the Wild Weasel role. Interesting to know what the percentage was.

 

[NeilChapman]

Total - 2,254 airframes

How many F-35's are we getting each year? 45?

 

[Archibald]

A stupid waste of taxpayer money sunk into a criminally stupid war. 8 million tons of explosives dropped, nearly 1.5 million lives lost over the course of 15 years, and the end result ? exactly what was feared at the beginning, that is, communists rolled over.

 

[iverson]

A stupid waste of taxpayer money sunk into a criminally stupid war. 8 million tons of explosives dropped, nearly 1.5 million lives lost over the course of 15 years, and the end result ? exactly what was feared at the beginning, that is, communists rolled over.

... and turned out to be capitalists in the process.