Wait, it only costs $24K for 5 dolphins!?

Watch out, world!

This arms race will not end well for anyone.

Diego Garcia is British Territory. And has been since they beat Napoleon.

I’m doing well!

Hi, how are you!? :)

The difference being that America didn’t also claim the entire ocean surrounding the island to be it’s sovereign territory.

Nah, pretty different. The island was already there. The Brits just seized it and evicted the inhabitants. They didn’t try to create new islands by dumping sand on a reef.

Two different deployments.

No one there is tall enough to reach the launch button, we’re fine.

This reg is way too detailed while ignoring the basics: you really just need lighting redundancy and, for crying out loud, red turn signals suck. Every last one of them.

The problem is when the F-22 was canceled by SECDEF Gates, that program, too, was facing a myriad of issues. In fact, I distinctly remember the sentiment being almost as negative towards the F-22 platform at the time because of these continuing issues.

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“Ferrari-like”

You haven’t read a budget lately. In 2013, the US spent about $630 billion on defense, or 18% of total outlays. In the same year, $1.3 trillion was spent on just 2 programs: Social Security and Medicare, which accounted for 49% of total federal spending. Social Security is the largest program by amount spent, and has…

Just had to make a meme on the cat. Probably won’t work in isolation by itself. But works with article above.

Slave labor, zero safety regulations and the fact that most of the systems are probably not nearly as advanced as the brochure says. Also the actual cost is probably higher. Never trust official Russian numbers.

How will it defeat the #1 enemy of the Russian Navy? Regular Maintenance.

Sorry comrade. We spent the stealth budget on vodka.

I’ve seen this on the news, started grinning like an idiot, had to come here and see something like this.