The F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter, the Pentagon’s most ambitious weapons program ever, has been plagued with mounting costs and delays that will result in a price tag of more than $2 trillion in the coming decades, according to a recent watchdog report by the Government Accountability Office.
  • FourteenEyes [he/him]
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    14 days ago

    Imagine what $2,000,000,000,000 could have done for this country instead of being squandered on this piece of shit

    • Owl [he/him]
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      14 days ago

      China's green energy program, twice, with a bit left over.

    • blobjim [he/him]
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      14 days ago

      It's just dollar signs, doesn't actually mean much in and of itself. But you can imagine what all the labor that went into designing and extracting resources and building the planes could have done, considering they've built quite a few of them.

  • FunkyStuff [he/him]
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    14 days ago

    Fact: 95% of military contractors stop developing fighter jets $1 trillion before inventing the "go faster" button.

  • 2Password2Remember [he/him]
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    14 days ago

    likely

    love how they don't even pretend to be certain about the astronomical price of the worlds most complicated paperweight

    Death to America

  • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]
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    14 days ago

    Americans: "Americans are about to find out why we don't have healthcare"

    Montage of F-35 crashes

  • emizeko [they/them]
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    14 days ago

    F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter

    not many people know this, but the F-35's abysmal maintenance record is the origin of the common saying "lightning never joint strikes twice"