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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1. They’re as bullet proof as a flying machine can be and still get off the ground.
2. They have tons (literally, yes *tons*) of equipment that non-military don’t need, such as signal jammers, IFF and secure communications gear, networking hardware to integrate with other warplanes in the sky and people on the ground, bombs, missiles, bullets, lasers, infrared sensors, etc. In some planes, there’s even redundancy in the landing gear.
3. Everything in 2. above has redundancies in case something gets shot up.
4. Every computer case that I worked on in the USAF had a semi-hardened case, several layers of steel, and huge monster cables, etc, associated with it.
5. Most of that equipment is built specifically for the military because commercial gear just can’t keep up with the demands of warfare.
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