Aging Fleet . .

[Genx87]

Originally posted by: techs

Originally posted by: heyheybooboo

Originally posted by: CanOWorms

Originally posted by: techs

I guess reality has nothing to do with you. When the rest of the world severly curtails defense spending you are still measuring it by the standards of the Cold War.

Link please. It seems that India, Russia, China, and others are expanding their militaries and capabilities. Many NATO countries are also increasing their expenditures.

Non-US aggregate real expenditure on military worldwide in 2007 remained at approximately the 1998 level, about half a trillion dollars. US spending increased from about $280 billion to about $625 billion.

From World Wide Military Expenditures at Global Security.

Yes, indeedy, GenX is a full time believer in "truthiness". No matter how many times he gets /pwned he keeps posting what he thinks is true.
heyheybooboo gets major pwnage on this one!

Did you grow up under power lines as a kid? What is your point anyways?

 

[maddogchen]

so we have a 623 billion dollar defense budget so what? we're fighting wars in two fronts. how many other nations on that list have so many troops in two fronts? plus we got troops stationed in south korea which i've always said we should pull out of and let them deal with their own security since the troops are needed elsewhere.

i thought we weren't buying that many F-22s as previously predicted because the costs soared? since the war there have been many cut backs in many programs. so you want us to buy more of them so we can scavage them for parts 15 years down the line?

 

[CaptnKirk]

Originally posted by: maddogchen
so we have a 623 billion dollar defense budget so what? we're fighting wars in two fronts. how many other nations on that list have so many troops in two fronts? plus we got troops stationed in south korea which i've always said we should pull out of and let them deal with their own security since the troops are needed elsewhere.

i thought we weren't buying that many F-22s as previously predicted because the costs soared? since the war there have been many cut backs in many programs. so you want us to buy more of them so we can scavage them for parts 15 years down the line?

OK - what do YOU plan to have flying 15 years down the road - Spads from the WWWI Museum?