Attrition: American Losses in the Iran War

September 10, 2026: The Iran War, which is not yet over, has already killed over 600 military personnel, a number that may exceed a thousand before it is all over. Most, 143 aircraft of the Iranian Air Force were lost, along with 32 ships of the Iranian Navy as well as more than a hundred of the speedboats the IRGC uses to harass ships in the Persian Gulf or, as they are now trying to do, plant enough naval mines to halt traffic out of the Gulf. Those mines were disposed of as fast as the Iranians could put them into the water. American AH-64 gunships and A-10 attack aircraft went after any remaining Iranian boats, or new ones the Iranians p…