CubitOomI ain't no Senator's son
☂️-this one slaps. it’s always difficult to vizualise just how much a large amount of money can be and just how readily they burn it on death.
DreamlandLividityExcept it’s just completely random numbers slapped on the footage.
care to name the weapon system and it’s actual cost for munitions and rearmament? Or is this a “trust me bro” moment?
I could go search for them, or you could notice that the pricetag is defferwnt for every of the 3 torpedoes shown.
How? How do you assign how much of the R&D should be counted for the one missile fire or burst from a Phalanx?
And much more importantly, what for? How would pricing random weapons firing on a random video help anyone with anything?
For example, F35 cost like $2 trillion when all costs are considered, but only like $100mil each. Slight difference, right? And to the second part, that’s the whole point of the thread, how much money America would save if it wasn’t for these weapons.
The thread was started by me calling the numbers in the video bullshit. The thread was never about whether america spends too much on its military.
If the thread is about people who already agree with the point slapping each other on the back, sure, go ahead.
But if you want to convince anyone, you may not want your numbers to be obviously made up. Putting aside that the phalanx shooting is an order of magnitude off, the same torpedo has 3 different prices one after another. Even someone who has no idea how much these things cost can see it’s BS if they pay attention.
OK, but you also see how saying America would’ve saved $100mil if it didn’t have an F35 in a video would also be misleading, right?