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0 pointsiso163115d ago0 comments

Very good at fighting last centuries wars. Then Millennium Challenge 2002 came out

Of course now we have cheap drones, putting massive asymmetric financial power. Every time Iran fires a $1k drone, America fires a $1m missile to stop it.

That's a great way to lose a war of attrition.

America has been losing wars for 50 years, from Vietnam to Afghanistan. 11 carrier groups or 110 doesn't make any difference.

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roryrocker15d ago

> fires a $1m missile

But are they really 1 million dollars? I've always had the feeling that the cost of military equipment in peacetime has an extreme inflated price because it's a tax payer black hole with so much bureaucracy, middlemen and some level of corruption that you can charge almost any price you want. In a war economy where the goal is to make as many missiles as possible, would governments really pay 1M a piece?

Hikikomori14d ago

Patriots are 4m a missile and depending on target you may need more than one. Trump gov was already averaging 50b in loans per month, cost of this doesn't matter. MIC will get just as fat as hegseth is getting on lobsters.

pan6914d ago

If I am not mistaken, another part of the equation is that it physically takes years to build a single missile (hence the cost).

financetechbro15d ago

Feels like they’d be willing to pay more, imo. But regardless, product development costs don’t disappear during a war economy

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