Re:The Pentagon’s $52,000 trash can
by jollyllama on Friday June 23, 2023 @09:57AM
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It's surprising to see people carrying water for the MIC in this way. Boeing already has the machines to make these kinds of things. It's just going to be sheet metal and plastic molds. Even assuming a one-off custom-fab job, $52k is obscene.
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The plane was introduced nearly 70 years ago. Why would they keep around obsolete machines for which the last plane left the factory literally decades ago?
Re:The Pentagon’s $52,000 trash can
by jollyllama on Friday June 23, 2023 @12:58PM
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That's my point, you don't need specialty machines to make trash cans; it's going to be the same types of sheet metal benders that are used for other simple fixtures.