The Off Topic

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Moving my response to @angstorms to The Off Topic:

@angstorms

Yes if you build military equipment, it costs money I do understand your point if we are discussing those programs. But not to this conversation, pricing on headphone, these das is is more about what the market will bear for a given markup over material costs.

The question I asked simple is dollar equation that causing issues if so hunt for a better price, You can buy the headset for much less.

Also their number of Defense contract programs that were not overrun

Yes, there are plenty of defense programs that came in under budget (they’d belong in a Giant Killers category or something). The three programs I cited struck me as prime examples of supremely expensive under performers. What really troubles me is that they are all contemporary programs from the same leaders using similar decision making processes.

They all occurred in an era of Great Powers reemergence too. “USA we’re #3! We’re #3!”