一周“燒掉”一艘航母！美國政府首次公開戰事成本

美國國防部代理審計長朱爾斯·赫斯特12日說，美國上周在對伊朗軍事行動中花費約110億美元。這是美國政府首次公開估算戰事成本。

The US spent about $11 billion last week on the Iran war, a Pentagon official said Thursday, offering the first public estimate of the conflict's cost — and one Democratic lawmaker insists is much higher.

據美國《政治報》網站報道，赫斯特當天在首都華盛頓一次防務會議上披露了這一“大概數字”。他同時表示，國防部審計長辦公室正為申請追加預算準備一個更具體數字，計劃數天內呈報白宮和國會。

Jules Hurst III, the Defense Department’s acting comptroller, said the figure was a “ballpark number” during a defense summit in Washington. His office is working on a more comprehensive figure for a supplemental budget request, he said, which the Pentagon plans to submit to the White House and Congress in the coming days.

這是從空中拍攝的美國國防部所在地五角大樓（2020年2月19日攝）。新華社記者劉杰攝

報道稱，110億美元幾乎夠造一艘福特級航母。

That total, for comparison, is nearly enough to build a new naval warship, such as the Ford-class aircraft carrier.

五角大樓先前已向國會議員披露彈藥消耗和飛行費用等初步估算成本。一些議員基于他們與政府官員的溝通預計，相關新增預算至少達500億美元。這一數字尚未經白宮或五角大樓確認。

The Pentagon has given lawmakers preliminary estimates of operational costs, such as munitions expenditures and flight costs, he said, declining to go into specifics.

Lawmakers have said they expect the Iran supplemental request to reach at least $50 billion, based on their conversations with administration officials. The White House and Pentagon have not confirmed that number.

官方數字之外，外部分析師就伊朗戰事成本給出不同數據。美以伊沖突14日將進入第三周。美國戰略與國際問題研究中心估算，戰事爆發后的頭100小時內，空中與海上打擊成本約37億美元。保守派智庫美國企業研究所則認為行動迄今為止的成本在112億至145億美元之間。

Outside analysts have offered varying estimates on the expense of Operation Epic Fury, which enters its third week on Saturday. An analysis from the nonpartisan Center for Strategic and International Security put the cost of the first 100 hours of air and naval strikes at $3.7 billion. The conservative American Enterprise Institute has calculated the operational costs so far at between $11.2 billion and $14.5 billion.

然而，國會參議院撥款委員會的克里斯·孔斯等民主黨人質疑，真實數字可能更高。孔斯稱，不清楚政府估算的數字是否包括船只、飛機、燃料、人員時間耗費等所有行動成本。美國政府今后打算向國會通報的花銷數字理應“包括幾個月的準備和部署、恢復彈藥儲備以及行動成本”。

Senator Chris Coons, ranking member of the Senate Appropriations Committee's defense panel, was among the Democrats who doubted that figure was high enough.

"I don't know whether that also includes all the operational costs of the ships, planes, fuel, staff time," he said. "If they were to come back to us and say, 'This is how much we have spent on this operation,' it would have to include months of preparation and deployment, as well as munition stockpile restoration, magazine refilling, as well as operating costs."

報道稱，美國政府暫未就何時結束戰事設定日期。美國總統特朗普先前稱，行動可能持續四周或更長。美國國防部長赫格塞思則拒絕明確任務時間表。

The administration hasn't set a firm end date for military operations in Iran. Trump has said the operation could last for four weeks or more, but Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has refused to place a timeline on the missions.

來源：新華社

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