logoalt Hacker News

pc86yesterday at 3:11 PM1 replyview on HN

What Iranian drone did a trillion dollars in damages?

I'm not saying the general thrust of your argument is wrong, quite the opposite. But that's a big number for one drone.


Replies

dlisboayesterday at 3:41 PM

A trillion seems large but it's not that absurd. The drone that shut down 17% of Qatar's LNG capacity is said to have caused 20 billion USD worth of annual lost revenue. They said it'll take up to 5 years to rebuild so that could be 100 billion USD in lost revenue, plus whatever it costs to do the rebuild.

A trillion dollars worth of damage seems possible if spread over some years for some countries in the Gulf where shutting down a desalination plant would cause depopulation.

show 2 replies