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I wonder what the cost will be a year from now. And two years from now. And...
F-35 may just be the most expensive Rube Goldberg machine ever constructed. :)
The surreal and obscene thing is the growing astronomical cost doesn't even matter at this point. It's a sunk expenditure and no pol would ever actually take steps to investigate or kill the project however fucked up it is or how fucked up it gets. The cost will keep going up as they throw traincars full of cash at problems.
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Maybe when it gets to $3t the American media will suddenly remember the F-35 exists and there will be some detailed tv news investigative report. Some dipshit reporter will look earnestly at the audience and say "How is this possible? How did this happen?" As if it's a mystery.
These types of projects make a lot more sense when you look at them as vehicles to divert tax money from stuff it's meant for and back into the pockets of the oligarchs.
Someone was yelling at me about russia because their oligarchs steal public money and that's not the same thing as unbelievable cost overruns on military projects and equating the two means i'm a putin shill.
Which was all very confusing because i wasn't even talking about that.
I find whenever libs hear something they don't like their immediate reaction is to start bleating about Russia.
In bad country all dissenters are labeled foreign agents by brainwashed population.
The investigation will then result in jailing few middle-grade people from MIC and military and everthing will be back to ~~even bigger scandal with new ICBM project~~ normal
And the Cold War 2.0 is on the horizon. This time surely featuring Russia and China. And somewhere in hell there will be endless laughter booming all the time. It'll be from Reagan and his cronies once they hear about Star Wars 2.0. Imagine how much that tech will cost.
I would argue we never even left the first Cold War, we only had a slight thawing for some time, but now we are again in it co,mpletely with proxy wars, (modified) red scare, yellow peril and even iron curtain is again visible. Even Star Wars is back, but as a farce. Space Farce.
I know that will have insane cost overruns. But I meant an actual, nonsense system of "gee-whiz-bang" laser (etc) tech that will never work because having it work was a big lie to begin with. This project would be at least a multi-trillion dollar intentional boondoggle created to routinely suck up ginormous amounts of cash. Star Wars 1.0 was designed that way but it never actually - cough - got off the ground.
Exactly. Also China already managed to humiliate them greatly with the magnetic cannon, and will even more in the future.
F-22 is even more absurdly expensive, but it at least somewhat works compared to F-35.
So far the only air to air kill of F-22 was the Chinese balloon lmao.
Looks cooler, too
le find out why americans don't have le healthcare
This isn't why. We would save money by switching to single-payer government healthcare. The only thing stopping us is the fat cats at the top of the healthcare industry. From a monetary perspective there's nothing stopping us at all.