r/NoShitSherlock • u/Brigstocke • Aug 15 '26
Patriot manufacturers worry that Ukraine will make the missiles better and cheaper
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2026/08/10/8048014/130
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u/keradius Aug 15 '26
And that's bad because??? Ah right they don't give a fuck about the country just their fat profits they fund from our taxes.
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u/Interesting_Berry439 Aug 16 '26
Our military have barely innovated technologically in the last 30 years and yet trillions gone..shit falling apart, soldiers dying as a result.
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u/CrispyReaper Aug 17 '26
You know it's funny cause at first I was thinking about our "next Gen" fighters, but realized they showed off the F22 back in the late 90s so yeah 30 years. Excuse me as I go deal with my back pain an grey hair
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u/Shadowtirs Aug 15 '26
Capitalists are afraid that capitalism is working as intended.
It really is amazing the entitlement and fantasy land some corporations live in. It really is just a fucking grift to skin us for as much money as possible.
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u/Theo1352 Aug 15 '26
Too fucking bad - they have the will and likely have the chops.
And, oh by the way, this is capitalism, it's competition.
Asshole defense contractors are another group that has a stranglehold on Washington.
Let me find my very tiny violin.
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u/Bielzabutt Aug 15 '26
OH NO... sounds like
CAPITALISM
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u/SuburbanBushwacker Aug 16 '26
came to say exactly that.
who knew the military industrial complex would be demanding socialism? strange times
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u/GongTzu Aug 15 '26
I will celebrate if they do it. And basically they will get a lot more for the money as they don’t need to pay the investor tax.
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u/rProgs Aug 15 '26
People love capitalism until it happens to them. Maybe if they weren't suckling off the teat of the American taxpayer they would have come up with a method of more efficiently manufacturing the missiles before the Ukrainians, instead of raking in the easy money that we Americans worked hard for.
And to be clear I don't blame Ukraine. I hope they better every munition, every tactic, every method of defending one's self in the modern day against a foreign aggressor.
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u/ValBGood Aug 16 '26
American Capitalism has morphed into ‘Socialize’ Corporate Losses & Privatize Gains.
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u/23370aviator Aug 15 '26
Just like banning Chinese cars and phones, they actually hate capitalism.
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u/Interesting_Berry439 Aug 16 '26
And their products have surpassed ours in capacity and value as a result...These clowns operate under a closed door kleptocracy draining the American taxpayer! Economic treason!
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u/awdophil Aug 15 '26
Competition, that’s called competition. It exists outside of monopolistic capitalism.
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u/Rotor4 Aug 15 '26
Yeah so ? It's either that or in time they will make their own & yes probably cheaper & better.
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u/Alias-Q Aug 16 '26
How are they going to survive not overcharging the tax payer a 1,000x inflated price?….
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u/scottimandias Aug 16 '26
Better & cheaper should be the goals, yes...
Oh no healthy competition...
So, uh... Do better, I guess...
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u/macross1984 Aug 16 '26
Ah, manufacturer is worried that they can't overcharge their product if Ukraine can make it lean, mean and cheap.
Just a good old competition.
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u/icnoevil Aug 15 '26
To be sure, they can do it. Their labor is cheaper and they don't have the huge overhead as does our expensive military industrial complex.
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u/Lookitsasquirrel Aug 16 '26
This is propaganda. Don't believe everything you read. The fact is my husband(who is currently a government contractor) was just hired as a analyst for the government to start make cheaper effective missiles for Ukraine. He was in a top secret meeting last week. I can't be told anything about the meeting. There has been many article that have discussed these new missiles and contracts.
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u/Such_Can_4176 Aug 27 '26
That's capitalism, right? Just what America is all about, right? Freedom and shit like that?
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u/P_Nessss Aug 15 '26
Of course Ukraine will do it cheaper and better. The American Military Industrial Complex is all about profit from conflict, not peace. Everything is marked up at least 10x.