America’s Military Can’t Repair Its Own $1.7 Trillion Jet | Only about half of the U.S.’s fleet of F-35 fighter jets is operational at any time due to difficulties with repairs, which must go throu…::Only about half of the U.S.’s fleet of F-35 fighter jets is operational at any time due to difficulties with repairs, which must go through contractors.

  • PsychedSy@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Imagine if Canada and the other NATO members paid their fair share of defense. Or medical research.

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      1 year ago

      That’s because we actually pay our infantry and treat them when they get home instead of tossing em on their ass and letting them become homeless

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        1 year ago

        Regardless of how you treat them we’d still be subsidizing your defense. And we have some pretty wild disparities in how we treat people depending on weird shit.