Flying F-22s is extremely expensive with an average flight hour cost of about $60K to repair stealth coating. This is a major contributor to its fairly abysmal mission capable rate of around 50%.

☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ · 2 years ago

Flying F-22s is extremely expensive with an average flight hour cost of about $60K to repair stealth coating. This is a major contributor to its fairly abysmal mission capable rate of around 50%.

seahorse [Ohio]@midwest.social · 2 years ago

Can we have government-subsidized healthcare? No that’s socialism How about $500 billion to defense contractors? Sure lol

I can’t believe most americans think this is acceptable

PolandIsAStateOfMind · 2 years ago

I’m pretty sure most people in USA would like to decrease the military budget to various degrees, but it’s not like they ever have a choice, whomever their vote for, the military is always coming out the ballot box.

Shrike502@lemmygrad.ml · 2 years ago

Imagine all that money and resources going to something productive

☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ · 2 years ago

Yeah, like providing clean water to millions of people in US.

hfkldjbuq@beehaw.org · 2 years ago

We need sustainable killing machines and weapons of mass destruction instead!!

Flying F-22s is extremely expensive with an average flight hour cost of about $60K to repair stealth coating. This is a major contributor to its fairly abysmal mission capable rate of around 50%.

Flying F-22s is extremely expensive with an average flight hour cost of about $60K to repair stealth coating. This is a major contributor to its fairly abysmal mission capable rate of around 50%.

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