• daannii@lemmy.world
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    2 hours ago

    These outlandish costs are just hiding what the money was actually spent on.

    Like those $400 coffee cups at the pentagon. Common. They didn’t spend that on a single coffee cup. They spent that money on something else.

  • perestroika@slrpnk.net
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    5 hours ago

    1.8 billion divided by 10 000 units = 180 000 dollars each

    They’re bonking mad.

    Side note: I built a set of FPV glasses for approximately 150 euros last summer. Sure, they don’t have integrated communications or night vision, but they still work, even if they aren’t perfect, and only cost a thousand times less.

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    6 hours ago

    There should be an investigation. Problems with the device should have been caught during prototype testing.

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    10 hours ago

    Even with the war crimes and other issues aside, the DOD has to be the most wasteful and financially corrupt entity in the federal government