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...currently an estimated $1 trillion to design, build and operate 2,400 copies... Am I the only one shocked that a country spend this much to make a weapon? I

by kawera 13y ago

...currently an estimated $1 trillion to design, build and operate 2,400 copies... Am I the only one shocked that a country spend this much to make a weapon? Is there any decency left?

Daniel_Newby 13y ago
Over the 50 year projected life cycle of the F-35.
- lucaspiller 13y ago
  So 20 Instagrams a year?
  - dodo53 13y ago
    Or supposedly most of the cost to end world hunger http://borgenproject.org/the-cost-to-end-world-hunger/ http://borgenproject.org/the-cost-to-end-world-hunger/
    - mpyne 13y ago
      World hunger isn't a simple resourcing problem, otherwise it already would be solved.
goostavos 13y ago
If you consider that the entirety of the Apollo programs, in which we developed machines to put us on the moon, cost $109 billion (in 2010 dollars), I would say.. yes. It's a little shocking that we've spent a trillion dollars on a plane.