Airmarks
March 17, 2008 at 12:00 pm
We learn this from the Washington Post:
The Pentagon confirmed this month that the cost of the fleet of 28 new super-sophisticated helicopters has jumped from $6.1 billion when the contract was signed in 2005 to $11.2 billion today. Outfitted with cutting-edge communications equipment, antimissile defenses and hardened hulls, each of the VH-71 helicopters, to be dubbed Marine One whenever the president is onboard, will cost $400 million — more than the most recent Boeing 747 jetliner outfitted to serve as Air Force One when it was delivered in 1990, even when adjusted for inflation.
Wasn’t life a lot simpler — and cheaper — when our helicopters looked liked this?
richarda said,
March 18, 2008 @ 10:05 am
Ah, the BROWN & ROOT corporate helicopter, shown being used by the Johnson campaign (for free!) during the fraudulently-decided ‘48 Texas U. S. Senate Democratic Primary election.
Brown & Root, which became HALLIBURTON.