6th Generation Stealth Fighter: Joint Effort by UK, Japan, Italy and Sweden?

Re:6th Generation Stealth Fighter: Joint Effort by UK, Japan... by neuronic on Saturday September 18, 2021 @03:19AM (#28574366)

The next generation of bullshit military spending?

A trillion for Afghanistan and F-35 each. Jeez, what could we have built with $2 trillion in investments? What cool companies, technologies or infrastructure could have sprung from this?

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Re:6th Generation Stealth Fighter: Joint Effort by UK, Japan... by bnastic on Saturday September 18, 2021 @04:26AM (#28574593)

As I understand, that $tn for F35 is projected over the entire lifespan of the program, which is decades in the future. Not the sum they spent on development.

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Re:6th Generation Stealth Fighter: Joint Effort by UK, Japan... by light_hue_1 on Sunday September 19, 2021 @03:46PM (#28587285)

Yeah. Half of that is R&D right now. $400 billion to develop and buy the craft.

Then another 0.5-1 trillion dollars over 50 years to keep them flying. An astronomical waste of money.

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Re:6th Generation Stealth Fighter: Joint Effort by UK, Japan... by DarkByte8 on Saturday September 18, 2021 @04:05AM (#28574519)

The kind that would be bombed by China if we would not erase the existence of winnie the pooh.

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Re:6th Generation Stealth Fighter: Joint Effort by UK, Japan... by neuronic on Sunday September 19, 2021 @06:46AM (#28583276)

The amount of bullshit in this post… wow. China doesn’t give a fuck about US mainland.

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