Scandalous Thoughts On F-35s, Aston Martins, And The Military Mall Of Horrors

[JohnyCanuck]

While we are on the subject, I would really like the PCWPD folks in Ottawa to explain why do we need all these expensive war toys? Each year, the global expenditure on armaments is1.4 trillion dollars. Over a trillion of these dollars are spent by the US and its NATO allies. Russia and China account for most of the rest- which means the US and NATO are spending roughly five times what Russia and China combined are spending. This is a lot of money to knock a few terrorists into line and the Russians aren’t coming anytime soon. Just maybe all this “defense” spending is really offensive spending, epic fraudulence, along with being addictive habitual behavior usually associated with society’s underclass.

The folks in Ottawa want to cut corporate taxes when we already live in a corporate welfare state where the MIC has been on the dole for too long time picking the public purse with no strings attached. The MIC should be nationalized, converted from war production to peace production and make things people really need for the 21st century. The Age of Militarism is no longer affordable, now we must find the political courage to push it over the nearest cliff. Instead of buying F35s and Aston Martins we have to be more pragmatic and invest in practical things like electric Hondas, wind mills and solar panels, that have real value, do real work and are not quite as useless as tits on a bull. We have to start thinking green instead of red-blood red.

Just days after I watched the TV spin on the F-35 I was paging through the Vancouver Province and came across an article titled: F-35 jet price tag could skyrocket… like I said, “shifty numbers in shifty times.” It now seems these planes are going to require aerial refueling , which means the purchase of tanker aircraft at the cost of a few hundred million more, and, low and behold, Canada’s northern air strips are not long enough for these winged Aston Martins and will have to be extended-a few hundred million more.

Seems to me all this is a tacit admission the F-35 is really not suited to our purposes. Its range is too short and that it must be able to land on northern airstrips has more to do with its single engine. Two engines are a basic requirement for flying in the high arctic and the F-35 is one short of two- which is maybe a reflection of the mathematical abilities of the F-35 designers. So these landings on upgraded strips have to do with a flawed appropriation and design deficiencies.

To land on these upgraded air strips the Defense of Department is planning on asking the manufacturer to install drag chutes. Pilots though have pointed out that using drag chutes in high Arctic winds is problematic.

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