US Air Force to spend $1.5 billion retro-fitting gifted Qatari plane for Trump use
www.abc.net.au
Retrofitting the 13-year-old plane will require significant security upgrades, communications improvements to prevent spies from listening in and the ability to fend off incoming missiles, experts say.
  • Asafum@feddit.nl
    771·
    2 days ago

    And since the plane gets transferred to Trump’s actual ownership after his term, Trump gets a free $2billion plane…

    • paperazzi@lemmy.world
      2·
      4 hours ago

      That’s ok because he won’t ever leave office again so technically the people will still own it

      /s

    • Clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      40·
      2 days ago

      The military is already ordered to strip it again when they are don’t with it, meaning he gets all the work done for free.

    • leftytighty@slrpnk.netEnglish
      15·
      17 hours ago

      lol that’s not how value works. If you add $1 million worth of mods to your civic and then remove them for a similar cost, you still have an old civic