I ain't no Senator's son

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I ain't no Senator's son - Infosec.Pub

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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.
Except 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.
Now can you facture in the person firing it, the ship it’s firing from, the cost to operate that ship, and the R&D costs of that weapon alone?

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.