(April 2, 2021 at 4:00 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: I hope to Hell a lot of that $22 billion went to R&D, because even if it has all those features, $188k per pop seems insane.
I remember the hubbub some years ago when people were talking about the military buying toilet seats and hammers for hundreds of dollars apiece. Military spending has routinely been outrageous.
When I was in basic toward the end of our cycle we had a day at the range. Some of us had long ago passed our shooting requirements but there were some in the platoon who needed more practice in order to pass. A couple of the drills took a group of about eight of us to another area of the range for the sole purpose of burning through ammo. They said that it needed to be fired and used up because if they had leftover ammo it would reduce the next budget. So, our little group were off by ourselves just shooting and reloading and shooting and reloading for the entire day.
“If you are the smartest person in the room, then you are in the wrong room.” — Confucius
