Sur l’état de l’armée américaine

[Krogort]

C'est clair que 1460 véhicules en deux ans et demis c'est vraiment impressionnant, de quoi nous ridiculiser avec nos minables PVP livrés en quantités ridicules.
Commande en 2004, livraisons de 1400 véhicules en 2015...mais ça m'étonnerais pas qu'on tape dans les 2020.

[Akhilleus]

dites vous etes gentils les gars mais on ne compare pas les capacités industrielles de la premiere economie mondiale et ses 300 millions d'habitants et la France et ses 60 millions d'habitants
rien que par l'effet nombre theorique il est normal que les vehicules US soient livrés 5x plus vite
2,5 ans 5 5 ca fait deja 12.5 ans

pour nous 2004 + 12.5 ans = 2016.5
on est dans les temps 

[alexandreVBCI]

The Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessment’s Todd Harrison has a new paper out warning that DOD is fast approaching a difficult choice: either fund the people or the weapons they operate, it will soon reach the point where it can’t do both.
With some 2,250,000 people on the payroll, DOD is the single biggest employer in the U.S., public or private sector. In fact, DOD has more people on its payroll than Wal-Mart (1.1 million) and the Post Office (600,000) combined. The size of the payroll means any changes, even seemingly minor year-to-year increases in pay or benefits, have an outsized effect on the defense budget because of the compounding and cumulative effects of pay hikes.
Since 2000, the cost to pay and care for one active-duty serviceman has increased 73 percent in real terms: from $73,300 to $126,800 today.
In 2010, congress voted a pay raise for military personnel (including DOD civilians) that was 0.5 percent higher than the cost of living adjustment, a pay bump that added just $351 million to the 2010 budget. However, because all future pay hikes will be added on top of that raise, the compounding effect means that even if future pay is simply increased to account for inflation, the 2010 increase will add $2.4 billion to the budget over five years.
Healthcare for military personnel and dependents is also rising at an unsustainable rate. DOD provides care to 9.6 million troops, retirees, members of the Guard and Reserve and dependents. Defense healthcare costs have risen 6.9 percent a year since 2000. Healthcare accounts for nearly one-tenth of the 2011 defense budget, a total of $50.7 billion.
DOD’s guns versus butter debate can be seen as an “intergenerational struggle,” Harrison writes, “a question of providing benefits for those who served in the past or funding the equipment and training needed for those who will fight tomorrow’s wars.”

http://www.dodbuzz.com/2010/06/01/dods-guns-versus-butter-debate/

Je rappelle que "Billion" se traduit par "Milliard" en français !