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Originally Posted by T@T
I heard $30 billion over 20 years including maintenance and upgrades if the costs are right all of which is still up in the air , whatever, we spent about $20 billion in friken Afghanistan over the last 10 years and we don't even have a tail-feather to show for it.
Fact is our fighters are now old junk, do we go with cheaper 4th generation stuff that quite likely in 5 years will be so outdated that a tribe in Kenya will be able to shoot down? or pay a little more so we won't have to mourn our pilots. To me,it only takes the saving of one of our own to make it worth it.
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http://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/cost-...rces-1.1069258
The costs continually go up. Honestly I doubt that in five years tribe in Kenya is going to somehow be able to start shooting down planes because they are fourth generation - whatever that really even means, jargon which is lost on the masses.