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Originally Posted by minn19
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Ok, I was career military, and even *I* have to go "WTF" for a jet that costs TWO BILLION PER COPY.
Has the Pentagon lost it's ever luvin' mind?
What the hell are you going to use it for? How are you going to justify taking the risk flying it on low-level training missions? Or somewhere where it can take a birdstrike? Or run it around the pattern where you run the chance of a crash via pilot error.
No matter *how* good the simulators for this thing are, the crews (pilots, maintainers, etc.) will have to actually FLY it.
And other than full-on Global Nuclear War (and yeah, nuclear triad, subs, missiles, yada yada)-- what is it GOOD for?
If you use it for ANY conventional role, you have to ask yourself- what *possible* conventional target is worth risking a TWO BILLION (with a "B") asset?
I'm sort of boggled. I sure as hell wouldn't want to sign for the jet.
TWO. BILLION. DOLLARS. PER.
This is insane. The Military-Industrial complex at its VERY worst.
R.
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