I wonder how divorced our military hardware has to become from reality before paying for it becomes a political issue. We operate strategic bombers that cost $1B each. A big chunk of our 'air superiority' fleet just got destroyed on the ground by a hurricane.
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What if it had been a submarine base hit instead of an aircraft base? Should an SSBN just fire up the ol' nuclear reactor with only a few days' notice and hope it works out for everyone?
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I actually do agree that our acquisition approach to date has been fairly stupid but there's a lot missing in this discussion about what it takes to put military aircraft in the air.
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An issue with F-16 in Poland, too - our old infrastructure involved hangars that were simultaneously bomb shelters... F-16 can't use them :-|
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