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Pepsi had a chance to kickstart the Snowcrash weirdo corporate microstate world and instead they sent their navy right to the scrappers. Cowards.

What’s hilarious is several years later, they gave themselves a headache with military hardware in a commercial, a Harrier.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_v._Pepsico,_Inc.

I mean . Was it going cheap? I wonder what the depreciation schedule is for submarines.

So cheap it didn't cost them a dime :P (They were scrap-metal payments in kind for Pepsi products, because the ruble was a closed currency and the soviets didn't have much foreign currency)