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ProfessorGAC

(71,311 posts)
5. My Issue Is, How Do We Know?
Sat Dec 3, 2022, 02:04 PM
Dec 2022

Since it's all treated as a sunk cost, we don't know the point at which security flattens and the added dollars are just excess.
We built an aircraft carrier the Navy said they didn't need.
Then, we have the F-35.

The F-35’s price per unit, including ancillary costs like depot maintenance, ground support equipment, and spare parts is $110.3 million per F-35A, $135.8 million per F-35B, and $117.3 million per F-35C. Those totals do not include the nearly $1.3 trillion in life cycle costs to operate and sustain the aircraft over its 66-year life cycle, making it the most expensive weapons system in U.S. history.

How much safer are we because of that? Would we have been just as safe with 2/3rds of those fighters? Half? Who knows?

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It Has Value ProfessorGAC Dec 2022 #1
I agree we are paying too much for it ColinC Dec 2022 #2
My Issue Is, How Do We Know? ProfessorGAC Dec 2022 #5
But then my question is -if we are safer with a set amount ColinC Dec 2022 #7
And, There Is The Dilemma ProfessorGAC Dec 2022 #9
Same ColinC Dec 2022 #13
+1000 absolutely. WarGamer Dec 2022 #22
What You Said ProfessorGAC Dec 2022 #26
I think McDonalds should send all their customers to the Pentagon Turbineguy Dec 2022 #3
... ColinC Dec 2022 #4
It's needed but come on, we over do it. brush Dec 2022 #6
The military industrial complex Doc_Technical Dec 2022 #8
The U.S. does not need to be fighting all the wars it has fought such as Vietnam Dysfunctional Dec 2022 #12
It's hard to say how much those wars are needed to ColinC Dec 2022 #15
So, U.S. military personnel need to die to help the MIC. Dysfunctional Dec 2022 #16
Possibly ColinC Dec 2022 #17
Don't rely on Congress for oversight. Too many thumbs in this Christmas pie. Sneederbunk Dec 2022 #10
Post.Of.The.Day. WarGamer Dec 2022 #23
i guess i'll answer a question with another question Takket Dec 2022 #11
Absolutely agreed ColinC Dec 2022 #14
Without it? WarGamer Dec 2022 #19
Without proper audits I can see this turning into a grifting Russia type sitch ColinC Dec 2022 #20
5 straight failed audits. WarGamer Dec 2022 #21
And if we give them less money, suddenly our planes start falling apart while Contractor CEOs buy ColinC Dec 2022 #24
I don't know the solution... WarGamer Dec 2022 #25
Agreed ColinC Dec 2022 #27
$21T spent since 9/11 WarGamer Dec 2022 #18
It is the federal governments #1 taxpayer-funded jobs program. Mr.Bill Dec 2022 #28
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