Your hard earned tax dollars will be spent at a rate of 1.4 mil per hour.

[Vovchandr]

@silverandslow1

Wrong.

Since when does a pure dollar figure mean anything? We need to spend more efficiently but that doesn’t change the fact that until that time we still need to upgrade.

The fact that we spend X times more than other countries doesn’t mean our technology is X times more advanced or superior to other countries. We are not twenty years ahead of Russia in military technology. We over spend on everything significantly and spend recklessly which is part of(probably most of) the reason our budget is much higher. I’m sure there is a Russian plane to compete with ours, or there will be and they didn’t or will not spend nearly as much to do the same thing.

I guess I don’t understand the suggestion. We keep our current planes forever and never upgrade?

So your argument is that dollar figures of spending mean… nothing? Incredible.

Why do we need to upgrade? Who else has such advance Air Force? When was the last dog fight? Forgetting that drones are doing an incredible job of bombing?

We don’t need to have the most advance fighter on the planet because nobody will ever get into an Air to Air battle with us. And IF even IF the other side and is somehow superior, and wins an air battle somewhere, somehow… it’s not like we aren’t leading in every other part of military technology and have the forces to back it up on the ground and sea.

I guess I don’t understand your proposal. We got rid of cavalry didn’t we? Or would have rather sank billions of dollars into making super horses to make sure we are the leader of the cavalry division and no other country surpasses us in the horse technology?

When there is nobody in the world that would dare to take us on outright in direct combat a new disastrous issue plagued plane isn’t going to scare them anymore.