RE: What's Next From The Drumpf Fuck?
September 7, 2016 at 4:45 pm
(This post was last modified: September 7, 2016 at 6:35 pm by Thumpalumpacus.)
The current plans are to procure about 2,500 F-35s at a total cost of $2.4b (that is not counting the enormous development costs of the plane). There are ten more Ford-class carriers planned, each costing at least $13b -- not counting their air groups, which will cost another $5b per carrier. Then there's replacing the M-1, the Littoral Combat Ship, and let us not forget the biggest portion of the defense budget: personnel.
Exactly how much waste does Trump think he'll find? That's an awful lot of $600 hammers.
Clearly ignorant of history, he doesn't understand that the steady increase of military budgets in order to buck up an increasingly shaky empire has presaged the fall of most empires in history. Military spending almost invariably has a negative RoI.
ETA: The figure I provided for the Ford-class carriers is incorrect. The lead ship cost that much, but that also include R&D for its new systems. Follow-on ships are estimated to cost around $7b each. Apologies for the incorrect information.
Exactly how much waste does Trump think he'll find? That's an awful lot of $600 hammers.
Clearly ignorant of history, he doesn't understand that the steady increase of military budgets in order to buck up an increasingly shaky empire has presaged the fall of most empires in history. Military spending almost invariably has a negative RoI.
ETA: The figure I provided for the Ford-class carriers is incorrect. The lead ship cost that much, but that also include R&D for its new systems. Follow-on ships are estimated to cost around $7b each. Apologies for the incorrect information.
