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Did some napkin math, apparently it costs minimum $11,000,000 a day to keep carrier group Ford deployed (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by glimmer_twin@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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Some estimates have perhaps as much as that figure just for the USS GRF, nevermind the other vessels in the fleet.

So the eight month deployment (and counting) has so far cost the American working class 2.6 billion dollars - as an absolute bare minimum.

This does not include the cost of actually flying sorties, the ordnance that gets dropped (these bombs can cost a million dollars a piece), etc etc.

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[–] TrustedFeline@hexbear.net 25 points 1 month ago (2 children)

$500,000 Personnel
$100,000 Ammunition
$10,100,000 Poop vacuum maintenence
$200,000 Medical
$100,000 Communication

Somebody good with money help me with my fleet

[–] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 12 points 1 month ago

Spend more on fiber supplements

[–] BanMeFromPosting@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month ago

Spend less on personnel. Replace them with ai

[–] DasRav@hexbear.net 20 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I am sure it's way more then that, the US military pays a ginormous premium on everything because the military industrial complex needs feeding.

[–] doleo@lemmy.one 5 points 1 month ago

PopPop gets a treat?

[–] RNAi@hexbear.net 17 points 1 month ago

The daily superprofits from unequal exchange pays that bill several times over

[–] BanMeFromPosting@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago

I would assume it's much more than that just in personnel wages and heavy bunker fuel, not to mention munitions and maintenance, cleaning supplies and food.