I agree that roughly 240 million dollars seems v. cheap in comparison to buying a 900 million dollar helicopter. Not giving your soldiers the best equipment seems at best silly and at worst sadistic.
It makes me wonder if there's something going on besides poor money management and politics. Do you have any statistics on what the Army is buying instead? (Besides the canceled Comanche? And did that price only include purchase or was it also development, labor, etc?) Because personally, if the choice is between walking and hand-to-hand combat in my Interceptor Body Armor or cruising around with a few people in a tank and shooting from a (relatively) safe distance....well, I think I'd have to choose the tank. Actually, I'd rather have both the tank and the body armor, but that's not likely to happen.
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Date: 2006-09-26 02:10 am (UTC)It makes me wonder if there's something going on besides poor money management and politics. Do you have any statistics on what the Army is buying instead? (Besides the canceled Comanche? And did that price only include purchase or was it also development, labor, etc?) Because personally, if the choice is between walking and hand-to-hand combat in my Interceptor Body Armor or cruising around with a few people in a tank and shooting from a (relatively) safe distance....well, I think I'd have to choose the tank. Actually, I'd rather have both the tank and the body armor, but that's not likely to happen.