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Re:United Airlines will buy 15 planes from Boom Supersonic by TheOtherHobbes on Thursday June 03, 2021 @07:08PM (#27388593)
The F35 is a primarily a sink for public cash that happens to fly. There is literally no incentive to make these projects cheap, fast, and economically streamlined.

The lifetime cost is projected to be $1.7tn. Someone is getting very rich off that.

For comparison, the entire Manhattan Project cost the equivalent of $30bn in modern money.

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Re:United Airlines will buy 15 planes from Boom Supersonic by justapassenger on Friday June 04, 2021 @12:51PM (#27395629)
> The lifetime cost is projected to be $1.7tn. Someone is getting very rich off that.

Tons of people are getting rich off that, and tons of people are being elected for the office. Military spending is one of the biggest government welfare programs in USA.

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