eli5: Why does the US Military have airplanes in multiple branches (Navy, Marines etc) as opposed to having all flight operations handled by the Air Force exclusively?
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Because we taxpayers allow them to have the budget to sub-optimize.
I watched the government pay me 4musd to develop a unit specifically for an aircraft carrier, then watched the us Navy pay to have another unit developed with the exact same performance for 4musd while a third identical function unit was developed for another 4musd by a foreign company funded by the US government.
Why? Because we let them.
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