It's so pathetic that anything that has to do with procurement for the military, has nothing to do with getting our troops the tools they need to do the job. It's all about politics and getting overpriced government contracts to friends of whichever government currently pulls the strings. It's sickening. Now we are going to buy $500 M worth of Vintage Australian F-18s when we don't have the pilots to fly the ones we have, or the techs to service them. And really, what pilot in his right mind would want to fly an aircraft that is dangerously obsolete in comparison to aircraft and missile systems they might have to fly against? It's like suicide. What a mess.
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