An informative and fun article UNTIL you get to the gratuitous TRUMP comment.
When you see it, give the screen a one-finger salute and forget it!
1 posted on
08/16/2019 6:47:44 AM PDT by
DUMBGRUNT
To: DUMBGRUNT
The U.S. military all on its own has seldom set its spending priorities. Massive amounts of U.S. military hardware funding is the result of Congressional horse trading over whose constituents are getting military contracts.
TRUE and PURELY military priority takes a back seat to all that.
2 posted on
08/16/2019 7:29:40 AM PDT by
Wuli
To: Whenifhow; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; 2ndDivisionVet; azishot; ...
6 posted on
08/16/2019 9:06:04 AM PDT by
bitt
(Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul - Douglas MacArthur)
To: DUMBGRUNT
"...three gas turbines generate 75,000 horsepower to spin propellers..." When it's swinging a propeller (airplane or boat), horsepower is meaningless because then it's torque that hauls the mail.
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