this post was submitted on 09 Apr 2025
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[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 week ago

Largest military budget in entire world

Hasn't won a war in 70+ years

Feels like there's a lesson to be learned here

Probably that we need to give the military even more money

[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Not only expensive, but slow to replace. Even with the unlimited money given by the treasury these interceptors take upwards of a month each to build with the current industrial (in)capacity within the AmeriKKKan empire.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 week ago

Pile on the tariffs and blocking of rare earth metals and this can balloon both cost and time fast

[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 week ago (4 children)

This is going to be one of those threads where a single person takes a post that would normally get around 10-20 replies and cranks it up to at least three times that much by never shutting up

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 week ago

they shut up whenever anyone asks a really incisive question. then it's crickets

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 week ago (1 children)

my memory is not clear, but I think they can't even replenish the launchers at sea and have to port for it

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I had not been thoughtful enough to think about thinking more thoughts thoughtfully

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 week ago

"They are some of our more dollar-intensive ordnance delivery vectors"

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 week ago

When the MIC money printer actually needs to be budgeted for a war with China

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