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This reads like a political advert from the US weapons industry to convince people that 20% of national spending on warfare is perfectly reasonable in peace tim
by lillecarl 5y ago
This reads like a political advert from the US weapons industry to convince people that 20% of national spending on warfare is perfectly reasonable in peace times.
I'm doubtful they're(the F-whatever) technologically superior to our little Swedish beast the "Jas-Gripen"[0].
The US just has more military than anyone they're messing with.
0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saab_JAS_39_Gripen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saab_JAS_39_Gripen
- thrill 5y ago"This reads like a political advert from the US weapons industry to convince people that 20% of national spending on warfare is perfectly reasonable in peace times." Because you go to war with what you have, which has long lead times to design and build and position and train and maintain and employ and resupply.
- lillecarl 5y agoYou're not wrong and it's not all bad. There are so very many useful technological advances though that spending. It still reads like an ad to me, which is weird when it's BBC