The grant buys the bomb, then the same budget pays for the war that uses the bomb. Two receipts. One customer.
- Package. 20,000 Mk-84s and 20,000 BLU-117s. Both 2,000 pound class. I-2000 penetrators also in the stack.
- Paid mostly with Foreign Military Financing. US grants. Israel buys US iron.
- Informal notice already with congressional committees. State says it does not talk before formal notice.
- Biden froze one such load in 2024 over civilian risk. Trump unfroze it in month one back.
- Hours earlier the Pentagon put four month Iran war costs at $33.4 billion and about 30 large drones lost. CBO has $38 billion through Aug 1 and up to $3 billion a month from here.
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/defense-news/article-908724
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