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I'm guessing that stripping it for parts, transport, and coordination would cost about as much or maybe even more than whatever value you could extract that way
by spindritf 12y ago
I'm guessing that stripping it for parts, transport, and coordination would cost about as much or maybe even more than whatever value you could extract that way.
- Crito 12y agoThen just drop the thing in the fucking ocean and call it "a reef". Why even pay to have this sort of shit shipped back to the states?
- rhino369 12y agoA lot of the stuff isn't brought back. IIRC about a third is donated to locals (stuff that can't be used to fight in the future, a third is junked, and a third is brought back.
- cstross 12y agoIf it's from Afghanistan, there's no ocean there to drop it in. And they don't want to leave it for bad actors (as witness ISIS allegedly using captured ex-US artillery pieces).
- Crito 12y agoUnless they drive the thing across the frozen Arctic Ocean, then there is an ocean between Afghanistan and San Diego for them to drop it into. I'm all for removing them from Afghanistan; I just don't want them brought back into the states.
- benologist 12y agoRecycling a perfectly useful vehicle like that is better than throwing it away for nobody to use. It's a used truck with superfluous armor.
- fnordfnordfnord 12y agoThey're unsafe. High center of gravity, probably have no emission controls, too heavy for city streets, etc.
- tzs 12y ago> too heavy for city streets It weighs less than an empty garbage truck or a full school bus, both of which are routinely allowed on city streets.
- fnordfnordfnord 12y agoAbout the same, they tear up streets too.
- Crito 12y agoBoth of which are actually useful for something other than fulfilling the violent war fantasies of power-tripping bureaucrats.
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- tacticus 12y agoHow shit are your school buses that they weigh more than the max mass of a full size low floor bus (non articulated version)