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The US lost 3 of its own fighter jets yesterday due to friendly fire[0], is it out of the realm of possibility? [0] https://newrepublic.com/post/207197/us-shoo

• joe_mamba 7mo ago
  US tax dollars blowing up US tax dollars. Lockheed Martin and Boeing stonks go up.
  • astrange 7mo ago
    Generally speaking defense contractors do not make more money during wars, because we start asking them to make low-margin realistic stuff, whereas in peace time we get bored and start paying them to design imaginary superweapons. But we also usually don't blow up our own planes I suppose.
    • joe_mamba 7mo ago
      >Generally speaking defense contractors do not make more money during wars US economy is not in war mode right now in order to ask its contractors to make cheap stuff.