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Originally Posted by Phanuthier
Hmm I dunno - did you get that from the DoD's balance sheets or something?
How do you know what the money will be spent now and in the future?
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How do I know? Because the F-15s won't be around forever, and eventually the F-22, or a different place will replace them.
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What exactly is involved in the $65B that is being scrapped? If its just planes, can those planes be bought in the future? I mean, Lockheed and Boeing still has the designs, doesn't it?
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The $65 billion dollars has already been spent to develop, design and produce the plane. I suppose what would be shutdown is the production lines for the planes the US was supposed to buy.
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So the $65B is a big deal in a $500B budget is a useless comment, becuase it has nothing to do wtih the current budget right now, right?
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Eh? Like I said, the $65 billion was spread out over 19 years of yearly DoD budgets. The design, development and initial production have already been paid for. What Obama is proposing to scrap is the payments of $355 some million for the additional planes. I believe they're taking a few more planes to get to 187, and then the production lines are being shutdown, and Lockheed and the other companies involved are going to work on other stuff that Gates is apparently pushing for.