The scale of this is not fully captured by this title. Literally about a dozen helicopters got blown over and obviously all of the direct damage from that will need to be fixed, but also each helicopter will need to be completely disassembled and then xrayed to assess damage and ensure there are no loose pieces in the helicopter (and they will likely be xraying/disassembling every helicopter that was in the storm to asses for damages, regardless of any apparent damage.) This isn’t even getting into the 10 helis that sustained class A mishaps, which are damages of $2million or more, up to complete destruction of an aircraft.
This isn’t a $20 million thing, this is probably closer to a billion if not more given the time and labor it will take.
Just send them to the military graveyard in the desert and order 50 new ones :big-cool:
You might be joking but I’m positive they'll never fly some of these ever again
just rolling helicopters off a train near the ukraine border and sending them a bill
Ive driven by aircraft graveyards. It's always seemed so obscenely wasteful.
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some fifty miles of concrete pavement. We pay for a single fighter with a half-million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people. . . . This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.
Too bad the Military Industrial complex has to go brrrr...
I'll go with "What did the based department tell the military veteran teachers in Florida about their students" Alex!
Both in scale of cost and how massive those things are.
Well you can probably write off every heli that got knocked over, they’ll never fly again. The ones that weren’t but still sustained damage will probably be repaired and sent to an ally of the US with full replacements ordered for the US navy
The only way climate change is talked about in the US is as a defense/security issue so I'm sure it'll keep going the way it's going (pouring trillions of dollars into the MIC)
The :citations-needed: episodes about that are great (horrifying)
You got me by a few seconds. God dam falconerd
That was a typo but it's staying
oh that's no problem Lockheed-Martin will be happy to sell some more to the navy. Rush prices of course. There's a war on after all :biden-troll:
Oh no so much damage to expensive equipment :biden-troll: no problem jack have a easy billion
Healthcare plz.
:DaBiden: how we going to pay for it
