• US Air Force halts orders of $1,200 coffee cups after criticism of 'reckless' sp
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Yup, military budget spendings are retarded af When I was in the army, camp cohesion was a common thing because WE HAD TO DEPLETE THE ALLOCATED BUDGET Like having leftovers is not a good thing because it reflects badly on the financial reports
I wonder when that military audit will be done, can't wait to see all the wasted billions
Expect unaccountable spending to reach into the trillions unless the audit is for a single calendar year.
Damn chair force
A common cause of these crazy-bloated prices (which seems to be the actual cause, more often then not.) Is where say, a plane is installed with a relitively 'generic' toilet system (giga-flush 400 extreme flight edition) for such air planes at a rather standard price. Come 10...20...30 years down the line, the company making the toilets have improved their designs, changed them etc. and wants to phase out the old product line, as they need the production space for the 'super-shitter 9000'. As a result, all the parts that were once stamped on large presses for the giga-flush now have to be machined from billet, or the whole production line has to be paused so as to swap over tooling to make a replacement toilet seat... so the company throws a huge price tag on it to cover that and pursuade the military to revamp their designs. The reality is, the cost of re-designing the plane's shitter-system is far too expensive (extensive testing / requalification of the whole plane due to laws & restrictions), so they just keep buying the over-priced replacement parts instead. Not always the case, but often is. We see it all the time in the industrial market too, expecially for products going into military / medical sectors as the cost of re-designing to take modern components, far exceeds the cost of re-certifications e.g.: Medical company buys £100 widgets for their machine, 40 pcs per year. Machine cost 300k to certify and test. Product gets phased out. Widget factory is willing to continue making small batches, but due to the small quantities, they decide to sell at £800. (continuing old products is a royal PITA.) To recover the costs of the recertification, they would need to buy 428 units.... 10 years supply. as a result, they just stick with the old product.
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