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by neuronic 1729 days ago
The next generation of bullshit military spending?

A trillion for Afghanistan and F-35 each. Jeez, what could we have built with $2 trillion in investments? What cool companies, technologies or infrastructure could have sprung from this?
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bnastic 1729 days ago
As I understand, that $tn for F35 is projected over the entire lifespan of the program, which is decades in the future. Not the sum they spent on development.
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light_hue_1 1727 days ago
Yeah. Half of that is R&D right now. $400 billion to develop and buy the craft.

Then another 0.5-1 trillion dollars over 50 years to keep them flying. An astronomical waste of money.

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DarkByte8 1729 days ago
The kind that would be bombed by China if we would not erase the existence of winnie the pooh.
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neuronic 1728 days ago
The amount of bullshit in this post… wow. China doesn’t give a fuck about US mainland.
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