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Ah, that reminds me of the classic film Robocop. Dick Jones [big exec at Omni Consumer Products talking about the ED 209 enforcement robot after it wastes a mi

• Jtsummers 6y ago
  I started my career in an aerospace parts company, what they made was fairly unique globally (and through various acquisitions they had no real domestic competition in the US, which guaranteed them many contracts). Many of my colleagues could not understand how the company was so well off when our products were being sold so cheap. I had to remind them that everything we made had a 5-10 year mandatory refresh cycle and no commercial, and few military, aircraft operators were going to manage that on their own (actually testing the LRUs and sensors, refurbing them, and replacing them). Everything came back to us for a guaranteed income stream over 20-100 years, depending on the expected life of the aircraft. If you can swing a DOD or DOD-adjacent supply contract for an aircraft, you're probably set for life.