Erik Prince
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$20,000 to $40,000 shot head 136 drone against a ship.
Not one, but two, okay?
Because they'd have to double tap it.
To the point, and obviously they were shooting at aircraft carriers and shooting at them effectively enough that they had to do high speed maneuvers.
Why?
Because they lost not one, but two ships, two aircraft,
Okay, an $80 million F-18 over the side because it was not dogged down.
It was being towed across and the aircraft literally skidded off the deck.
Not once, but twice.
Yeah.
Because we know it costs a lot.
thanks to Raytheon and Lockheed and Northrop, yeah, problem children.
They need to be smashed, broken up.
You've had a massive over-consolidation.
You used to have 100-plus major defense contractors.
The Clinton administration really pushed a consolidation in the late 90s, and we have been suffering ever since from that.
The Secretary, the SecDef has to take it down to the studs as much as he can with hiring and firing people because people is policy.
But then there's underlying
law that has to be changed.
Really the last time Congress did a big change on creating a service was, I think it was MFP 11, say 85 or 86 when SOCOM was created.