The Osprey helicopter crashes a lot. The Harrier melts a lot of surfaces it tries to land on. There's also the yearly budget surplus problem where military units will do things like shoot thousands of rounds of ammo at nothing or run thousands of gallons of fuel through jet engines just so they can budget in those same expenses next year
When I was in the military I heard stories of Hueys going out with boxes of excess ammo to dump it in the ocean (they would report is as being fired in training). This was at the height of the wars in Afghanistan/Iraq, I figure it can only be worse with how much military budgets have ballooned and actual operations have been scaled back.
The Osprey helicopter crashes a lot. The Harrier melts a lot of surfaces it tries to land on. There's also the yearly budget surplus problem where military units will do things like shoot thousands of rounds of ammo at nothing or run thousands of gallons of fuel through jet engines just so they can budget in those same expenses next year
When I was in the military I heard stories of Hueys going out with boxes of excess ammo to dump it in the ocean (they would report is as being fired in training). This was at the height of the wars in Afghanistan/Iraq, I figure it can only be worse with how much military budgets have ballooned and actual operations have been scaled back.
The WTYP episode about the osprey is great