Thread 64175188

With $400,000 you can buy a lot of rifles and ammo.

Which is more deadly?
$400,000 helmet
vs
$400,000 worth of assault rifles and ammo?

Even apple would made something cheaper.

In a real war scenario, the US will go bankrupt.

>bankrupt
the people we fight for run the banks, we'll never go "bankrupt"

>>64175188 (OP)
You should be grateful that an authentic made in USA high-tech equipment only cost $400, 000

>>64175188 (OP)
fuck off turdie

is helmettard going back to his roots?

>>64175188 (OP)
Embezzlement (yeah in the west too)
Economies of scale.
>Apple
Apple os a civvie tech. Running way behind miltech. Also AAPL produces tens of millions of the same device. Again Econ of scale.

>>64175192
yeah! dummy!

>>64175188 (OP)
Riflemen being cheap only applies to shithole countries full of worthless people, in real countries you have to take into account the massive opportunity cost of having them fight instead of work

>>64175188 (OP)
>spend 250 million developing a helmet
>only make a couple hundred helmets
companies rolling their R&D costs into unit costs due to low production volume

>>64175251
That doesn't change any of the costs associated or who pays the bill.

>>64175188 (OP)
>Which is more deadly?
>$400,000 helmet
>vs
>$400,000 worth of assault rifles and ammo?

>>64175261
What it means is that the price to build another helmet is way less than 400k

>>64175188 (OP)
The largest welfare expendature the US has is what it spends on the troops. I'd rather spend $400k on a tech helmet that can kill lots of poors than spend the same money hiring poors.

>>64175188 (OP)
>$400,000
Wait until you hear how much the airplane it goes with costs, the number is so big it will make the rest of your village think you caught head demons from touching the click-clacky board and they'll smash your magic lightning picture box

>>64175266
The dweeb wearing that helmet can kill far more people than some jogger with an AK/M4/SigRifle

>>64175188 (OP)
are we putting the guy with the helmet in the jet that the helmet is for?

>>64175300
If only you could sum that up in a single picture like if there was a bunch of assault rifles sitting right in the middle of what is unquestionably the most well-known example of an air-to-ground turkey shoot in all of world history.

>>64175261
>doesn't change the costs
You're right.
Layers of secrecy, multiple contractors making small batch runs for individual pieces, bespoke pieces, a team of skilled and security qualified engineers, developers, programmers. The management for it.
Testing, failing, testing, testing, failing, bugwork, testing. Certifications, quality control.
Etcetera and etcetera and etcetera.

Same reasons you couldn't start a competitive modern level chip production company if someone just handed you ten billion USD are the same reasons cutting edge unit development costs so much.

>>64175261
if they bought 2 million helmets it would cost significantly less

Why are you implying in a “real war” the US will be forced to make tons of these? There are already enough F-35s to realistically handle the air forces of all countries outside of NATO+Pacific allies put together. We already bought these without going bankrupt. In a realistic war, i seriously doubt we’d even bump production numbers above their current speeds, we dont expect to lose many of these things.

>>64175188 (OP)
It's cool. Consumer electronics remain gay forever.

>>64175198
this guy gets it.
American equipment is expensive by necessity. There's just a strict limit on total industrial output, so if you can only make about 2500 planes over the lifetime of the program (I'm being extremely optimistic), you better squeeze out every dollar for 1 - future R&D and 2 - pure effectiveness.
This obviously leads your fighter program down a spiral of becoming increasingly more expensive and less numerous, but that's what happens when you sell all your factories to CHYNA.

>>64175324
Does anyone have the
>shadman
Version of this webm?

>>64175709
I was just thinking about him today. I'm sure he would have been inspired by recent events.

>>64179997
Why is she dressed like a little slut if she doesnt want to have perved on by (im assuming) a brownoid

>>64175188 (OP)
Because it costs millions to develop and they only sell a small number of them.

>>64180040
No white girl should need to worry about currynigger pedophiles regardless of their attire or where they hang out. Also she's like 12, she did it for the same reason all kids do things: influence by society. They literally don't have a functioning brain yet or the capacity to make independent decisions.

>>64175188 (OP)
>Which is more deadly?
The helmet.
>In a real war scenario, the US will go bankrupt.
Iraq had one of the largest militaries on earth. We erased them in a weekend. No, the US will not go bankrupt. When we fight a real war, it ends so quick people think war is easy.