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bahrbearian

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3. Don't you understand it'll save the Air Force money, except for a storage fee

Reply to unhappycamper (Original post)

Wed Mar 7, 2012, 11:27 AM

Mar 2012

Air Force is not sure what it will do with the money it saves by cutting the RQ-4 Global Hawk Block 30 aircraft and moving 18 of the $215 million unmanned aircraft into storage.

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Air Forces Mothballs $3.8 Billion Dollars 'Worth' of Global Hawk Drones [View all] unhappycamper Mar 2012 OP

sell them to Chicago for the upcoming NATO summit. ChairmanAgnostic Mar 2012 #1

Nato summit has been moved toCamp David! snappyturtle Mar 2012 #5

No G8 Summit Moved From Chicago: Protesters Say They Will Still Come For NATO Vincardog Mar 2012 #11

Yes I've heard that too and I'm certain the protestors will show up snappyturtle Mar 2012 #12

I plan on going. If they arrest me for breaking an unconstitutional law, I hope the ACLU Vincardog Mar 2012 #16

Wow! Good for you...your plan and all. I think you & the ACLU will be very busy! nt snappyturtle Mar 2012 #17

aw shit--and i downloaded the metra schedule dembotoz Mar 2012 #14

put 'em in the toy stores for christmas Blue_Tires Mar 2012 #2

Don't you understand it'll save the Air Force money, except for a storage fee bahrbearian Mar 2012 #3

We already spent $3.87 billion dollars on these Global Hawks. unhappycamper Mar 2012 #8

I was being snide bahrbearian Mar 2012 #10

I think there's some small towns willing to buy them... JHB Mar 2012 #4

Military spending makes no fucking sense anymore yet the beat marches on. /nt think Mar 2012 #6

The Global Hawk is a very large MineralMan Mar 2012 #7

Here's a short article on trends in UAVs: Johnny Rico Mar 2012 #9

And another news flash: unhappycamper Mar 2012 #13

K&R think Mar 2012 #15

In other words... jmowreader Mar 2012 #18