Why is it so expensive to fly and maintain military aircraft?

Question

I just so some numbers like 20-35K dollars per flight hour for some fighters and that seems ridiculous, anyone know what costs so much?

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Answer 1

There is a lot of actual technical reasons but a pretty meaningful reason is they take the money and put it in an envelope and send it to absurdly rich people and a lot of the military exists just to do that. there is a lot of military contracts where it’s not even what the military wants but some senator wants it to exist to send a large sum of money to their state or a specific company or to their share price or something similar.