• acargitz@lemmy.ca
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    15 hours ago

    170 vehicles. That’s about 5.8 million dollars per vehicle. That’s a bit steep isn’t it?

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        7 hours ago

        With that kind of attitude any price is unassailable. Edit: why not 6.8 million per vehicle, why not 15.8 million per vehicle, did you ever buy one?

        Look, that 1 billion is being taken away from my public services and climate change adaptation programs. At the very least, I get to demand my tax dollars are not being wasted the way the Estadounidenses throw money down the military industrial complex money pit.

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          7 hours ago

          Stfu like does every one just copy and paste their bullshit from each other with loaded shit statements . “down the military industrial complex money pit.” Just say army you fuck. Save every one the time.

          Also, we have a lot of shit to defend in the Arctic. The conditions are so rough up north. If an engine shuts down, good luck getting it started again.

          Spending 1bill on on what isn’t just a veichle but a means of survival, eh but you know best with all your years of practical experience in field work.

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            6 hours ago

            Rough morning? Pipe down bud.

            EDIT: Like if you hadn’t written in such a rude and abrasive way, I might have responded with something like: yes we need an update, no we shouldn’t do it in a dumb way. We are notoriously bad at using military budgets, so we should not be accepting anything at any price, we should be doing it in ways that create investment in our industrial base and create economies of scale to benefit the civilian economy. But, when I’m being told to “stfu you fuck you have no field experience”, I’m going to respond in kind. So pipe the fuck down.

            • Bane_Killgrind@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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              5 hours ago

              so we should not be accepting anything at any price

              That’s a bad take.

              These should be amphibious, and capable of operating 72hrs without resupply, capable of ambulance fitout…

              There’s obvious utility, and our existing vehicles are 40 years old

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                4 hours ago

                Did I debate the need of any of that capability? Like, I literally wrote “yes we need an update”. The point is “we should not be accepting anything at any price”. I can’t understand how that simple common sense statement is a “bad take”. The point of military procurement, or of any procurement really, is to maximize utility while minimizing cost. Ukraine has already shown us that the drone revolution means that modern wars are now back to being wars of attrition. And in wars of attrition, cost is a strategic resource.

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      14 hours ago

      The way prices are going up on literally everything these days, i imagine it’s not terribly out of line. The fuck do i know about such things though, lol

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        5 hours ago

        The cost to build an ambulance in Ontario is something like a quarter million, so you could start there and look up costs on other similar vehicles