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...currently an estimated $1 trillion to design, build and operate 2,400 copies...

Am I the only one shocked that a country spend this much to make a weapon? Is there any decency left?

If you consider that the entirety of the Apollo programs, in which we developed machines to put us on the moon, cost $109 billion (in 2010 dollars), I would say.. yes. It's a little shocking that we've spent a trillion dollars on a plane.

Over the 50 year projected life cycle of the F-35.

So 20 Instagrams a year?

Or supposedly most of the cost to end world hunger http://borgenproject.org/the-cost-to-end-world-hunger/

World hunger isn't a simple resourcing problem, otherwise it already would be solved.

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