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[-] culpritus@hexbear.net 45 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

the Pentagon asked Congress to stop making these tin cans, but the pork barrel doesn’t go away so easily in :amerikkka:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/army-says-no-more-tanks-115434897.html

Yet in the case of the Abrams tank, there's a bipartisan push to spend an extra $436 million on a weapon the experts explicitly say is not needed.

"If we had our choice, we would use that money in a different way," Gen. Ray Odierno, the Army's chief of staff, told The Associated Press this past week.

[-] emizeko@hexbear.net 39 points 5 months ago
[-] Skeleton_Erisma@hexbear.net 21 points 5 months ago
[-] TraschcanOfIdeology@hexbear.net 14 points 5 months ago

Lol it even looks like a cybertruck

[-] Ildsaye@hexbear.net 8 points 5 months ago

It's a hover ambulance and the costs are socialized, right?anakin-padme-2

[-] Sephitard9001@hexbear.net 3 points 5 months ago

it shoots the healing gas found in Resident Evil first aid sprays

[-] Gucci_Minh@hexbear.net 7 points 5 months ago

It reminds me of those ridiculous mockups they made of the CV90 with a 120mm.

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