• theparadox@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Not only is it ridiculous and likely unnecessary, but also consider they’ll need to budget maintenance costs for this.

    • 𝔼𝕩𝕦𝕤𝕚𝕒@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      They get to be abhorrently expensive. Newark NJ got 2 Vietnam era helicopters (one for parts only) and in 5 years spent 1.13 million just keeping it around to fly for 4 hours every other Friday/Saturday.

      Decom stuff is a maintenance moneypit

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      3 months ago

      Don’t worry. They’ll take it out of the budget they don’t use to pay for lawsuits.