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GummyBearz

(2,931 posts) Wed Oct 28, 2015, 09:52 AM Oct 2015

Northrop Grumman wins $80B defense contract. Someone in the airforce is tickled to death right now

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/northrop-grumman-wins-80-billion-contract-to-build-long-range-bomber-2015-10-27

I imagine which ever general has been pushing for this is as giddy as a 7 year old on christmas eve. He probably couldn't sleep last night he was so anxious to unwrap his new present.

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Northrop Grumman wins $80B defense contract. Someone in the airforce is tickled to death right now (Original Post) GummyBearz Oct 2015 OP

80 Billion, now! atreides1 Oct 2015 #1

Yeah. The future president of Northrop Grumman. Octafish Oct 2015 #2

Eh.. I doubt president. Member of the board more likely GummyBearz Oct 2015 #3

We should nationalize the defense industry. Salviati Oct 2015 #4

atreides1

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1. 80 Billion, now!

Reply to GummyBearz (Original post)

Wed Oct 28, 2015, 09:55 AM

Oct 2015

By the time the first aircraft is ready for flight tests...that 80 billion will have ballooned to 160 billion, and will only go up from there!

Another MIC rip off of tax payers dollars, just like the F35!!!