Yet another taxpayer funded boondoggle.
The B-1, B-2, F-35, F-22, ICBM/SLBM missile systems, Tomahawks, and other weapon systems have cost the taxpayer trillions, and for what? So we can beat up ragheads armed with rusty rifles??
We spend billions then only make a handful after promises that we’ll buy lots of them to make them cheaper, but then we buy only a handful.
The B-2 cost over $2 billion a copy after we taxpayers paid all the bills. The F-22 has cost over $340 million per airplane. If you include that fact that only 10 of these are flyable at any given time, we the taxpayers paid $4 billion per flying copy.
The NRO/USAF has paid over $10 billion for one satellite program alone that got canceled, and there have been multiple of these. Several key space program are now over $10 billion over budget.
National defense spending is necessary; Military Industrial Complex spending is not.
BTW, the new National Background Investigations Bureau (NBIB), a 2015 invention to improve the lousy security clearance review processes, is now over 700,000 background investigations behind with more added every month.
The B-21 program is suffering from that and cannot get anyone a clearance. Everyone recruited must have a current clearance. All classified program are experiencing this. Recruiters are going nuts trying to recruit enough people with current clearances because the NBIB cannot process any new ones. That is costing we the Taxpayers even more money because companies are being paid when workers cannot work or compensated when workers cannot be found.
We need to put the brakes on any and all new development programs for 25 years until we’ve used what we’ve already paid for.
So we can beat up ragheads armed with rusty rifles??
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I guess Russia and China don’t count, not to mention North Korea. “Strength through weakness” - that was Obama’s motto. There’s a new guy in office now who seems to believe the opposite ... as do most of us.
You have a point... right up until the next major war and we’re entering that period right now. 100 years between major wars seems to be the established pattern. The British Army and French Armies prior to WW1 were very professional and very experienced at small colonial wars. The Kaiser’s Army dealt a near death blow to both in 1914. Point is: you don’t necessarily get to chose the fight if your enemy brings it to you.
DETERRENCE!
Even Vlad isn't ready to take us on head to head. Or would you rather be like Canada?
Yeah - because none of our enemies are ramping anything up.....strength through weakness is an interesting concept - I think I can envision Nancy Pelosi telling us that we really need to not make any updated nukes until we have used the ones we already have....