How expensive can it get before it's just theft?

[Anonymous]

An Apache AH-64 helicopter, which the Iranians supposedly shot down, costs 31 million dollars. Nothing quite like being ripped off by defense contractors, is there?

[MrChinaski]

Obsolete technology.

[Asker]

Perhaps so, but we keep building these things and paying through the nose for them even though they don't work very well.

[MrChinaski]

It was introduced in 1986. What car were you driving in 1986?

Most of the kills in Ukraine are from technology developed in the past 3 years.

Apache are obsolete.

[Asker]

As long as some defense contractor keeps making them, we've got to keep buying them. I think that's the deal.

[jshm2]

it's taxpayer money. So the US see's no qualms in wasting it.

[strateguy632]

the engineering to make this special helicopter and its machines and technology all add up.