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Originally Posted by Phanuthier
Was that $65B spend within 1 year's $500B budget?
Multi-million projects are cut with budgets that are multi-million all the time.
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No, the $65 billion was actually spread out over 19 years or so.
Not exactly a costly investment, considering what the return was.
I bet you it didn't turn out to be more than 1% of the total DoD budget in that time.
Face it, the US is going to have to replace the F-15 anyways, unless Obama proposes to cut the Air Force, something Gates would never go for.
So, you either replace it now....and just spread out the cost over 2x the time, or you spend money fixing up F-15s until they can't be fixed up anymore, then you replace them with F-22s anyways.