It’s not just money. It’s time, public perception, quantity trainers, quantity student seats etc
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diffusive@lemmy.world 6 months agoTraining a combat pilot used to cost (in early 2000, not sure now) 10M€ for a NATO member.
Find me a modern jet that costs so little. Regardless of what politicians say, human life has a price… and it is waaaay below a jet (even including the training)
GBU_28@lemm.ee 6 months ago
grue@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Yeah, but procurement of a combat pilot has about a two-decade lead time. You can build more jets a lot quicker (potentially even including the R&D phase).
intensely_human@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Also as this war expands to become planet-wide, industrial output of drones will expand many orders of magnitude.