Re:Boeing overcharged the U.S. Air Force 8,000% above market...
by mschuster91 on Thursday November 21, 2024 @05:08AM
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> because the stakes are actually lower.
I'd actually disagree there. The stakes for military aircraft are higher - assume Russia or China sends a nuclear bomb equipped squad on their merry way to Alaska.
If even one of the US planes has an issue taking it out of the fight, the Russian bomber squad may succeed, dropping a nuke and killing tens of thousands of people.
Re:Boeing overcharged the U.S. Air Force 8,000% above market...
by alternatex on Thursday November 21, 2024 @06:11AM
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Your argument makes sense if we ignore the topic of the thread. I don't think nuclear war readiness capabilities boil down to having good soap.
If a piece of military hardware or software fails, one or two or a dozen people die... if they can't eject.
If a piece of civilian hardware or software fails, hundreds of people die. Witness the 737 Max.
The breakdown of the barrier between the military and commercial sides of Boeing has resulted in a catastrophic reduction in quality on the civilian side. So overcharging for soap dispensers on the military side is far more egregious than overcharging for them on the civilian side, because the stakes are actually lower.