The way we acquire new weapons systems is broken. First, we pay a company to come up with a new concept, then we pay them tens of billions of dollars to develop it over then next 15 years, completely ignoring the fact that it is horribly over budget and years behind schedule.
That’s why we have a large military
Like the “educational” system, it’s actually an employment program and a means to funnel tax money back to the big suits who bribed congress for the massive budgetary items in the first place
it’s a circle of life