Warren, Sheehy Introduce Bipartisan Bill to Guarantee Military Right to Repair Its Equipment | U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts
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U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Tim Sheehy (R-Mont.) introduced the Warrior Right to Repair Act of 2025, legislation that would require contractors to provide the Department of Defense (DoD) with access to technical data and materials the military needs to repair and maintain its own equipment.

  • rottingleaf@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 hours ago

    Look up military pricing too, I remeber seeing something about how the military pays $400 for $4 bag of fuses

    That “military pricing” is called “corruption”. Despite everyone knowing that it happens in most militaries (or big b2b), it still is that.

    Its a complete waste of taxpayer money. Money that could be redirected into more important stuff, but alas our corrupt politicians will find other things to waste it on.

    I mean, you had a truly magnificent military budget for already 30 years after the nation which was supposed to be the problem solved by it started asking for food aid and falling apart into pieces.

    When the funds are provided and it’s certain they won’t have to be used, the tasks existing expand to fill the budget.

    The US military budget is so over the top that even things that it achieves are not so significantly different from what Russian military budget with Russian corruption achieves, yet its size utterly dwarfs that.

    If US military budget were used as efficiently as that of, say, Poland, US military would have colonized most of the Solar system already. With actual people as colonists.

    That’s about that fiscal discipline the Republican party was supposedly in favor of, until it wasn’t.

    OK, I live in Russia, so shouldn’t probably blabber too much about US politics.