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The US lost 3 of its own fighter jets yesterday due to friendly fire[0], is it out of the realm of possibility?

[0] https://newrepublic.com/post/207197/us-shoots-three-fighter-...

US tax dollars blowing up US tax dollars. Lockheed Martin and Boeing stonks go up.

Generally speaking defense contractors do not make more money during wars, because we start asking them to make low-margin realistic stuff, whereas in peace time we get bored and start paying them to design imaginary superweapons.

But we also usually don't blow up our own planes I suppose.

>Generally speaking defense contractors do not make more money during wars

US economy is not in war mode right now in order to ask its contractors to make cheap stuff.

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