Price of Hellfire Missiles: Everything Americans Could Buy Instead

in #anarchy7 years ago


Hellfire Missile
Price Tag — $110,000

Reaper drones carry 4 Hellfires, however, and the average number of weapons released in an airstrike last year was 2.2, which makes the price-tag for 1 drone strike’s worth of Hellfire missiles closer to $242,000. Try to imagine the missiles as metal bags stuffed with taxes of 163 workers being launched at a Pakistani mosque. You can also think of them as 10 college degrees collapsing a building in Iraq or as an exploding version of the yearly compensation received by 9 workers near the US median income.

The $190.2 million or so spent by the Pentagon to purchase 1,729 Hellfires last year is equal to the cost of providing 1 year of housing for 19,807 homeless American, including utilities.

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I think crypto is our best chance to cripple the war machine. Well, that and the borderless exchange the is the internet. #StateSpeechIsHateSpeech

the parallel economy with crypto is certainly the namesis of statism socialism corrupt central banks and slavery in general. Satoshi is the modern day Spartacus.

But they say war is more profitable than housing citizens :)

Good information. Something to be aware of.

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