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For sixth year, Pentagon fails to account for over $3T (new.thecradle.co)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Another source: https://theintercept.com/2023/11/17/pentagon-audit-failed/

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago

A clear example of this is the F-35 program, which has gone over its original budget by $165 billion to build a plane tasked to perform many different tasks, none of which it does well.

I tried to get an F-35 to clean my old apartment, it kind of worked at first but it burned down the apartment instead...