The current total cost of the F-35 program, as of 2017, is around $400,000,000,000 (Four Hundred Billion USD), and is expected to have a lifetime cost of around $1,500,000,000,000 (One and a Half Trillion USD). This jet, beyond being wholly unnecessary, is considered by the military itself to be a failure.
So yeah, we wasted a fuck ton of money just to get a bigger imperial dick.
@fatsam "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
- Dwight D Eisenhower
@fatsam Flying an F18-E/F for two hours would put my students through a 4-year degree in AI development.
I'm not sure we need either, but it's worth thinking about.
@fatsam this is only half true
they can afford the death machines and all those other things they just choose not to