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geoduck14 | 5 months ago

To quote a military friend of mine: "Why build 1 plane when you can build 3 planes for the cost of... does math... 3x!"

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ranger_danger|5 months ago

"First rule of government spending... why build one, when you can have two, for twice the price!" -Contact, 1997

wkat4242|5 months ago

That was never the intention of course. But I guess there are still benefits of scale like maintenance parts, training etc.

panick21_|5 months ago

My fear would be that with current US acquisition, it would have been 3x 50 billion instead.