>Putting things the other way around, USAF is about 40% of U.S.
>Putting things the other way around, USAF is about 40% of U.S. military by value, so we can assume it takes about 300 billion a year to operate. A plane's life is about 30 years. It makes up 9 trillion. And there are about 6000 aircraft it in. So each consumes about 1.5 billion over its lifetime, all accounted. Now you're ready to compare our AF to someone else's. >Why is the difference of 'per aircraft lifecycle cost' so important then? Only plane for which it is comparable (actually greater) than USAF total spent per airframe is B-2A, Because you can compare each platform's "efficiency" at a given mission, as you state in the last part of your post. It relies on getting in lots of wars though to get enough data to make reliable comparisons, "fortunately" we've got that part covered. >will make it a good buy anyway. That remains to be seen / demonstrated. The way it shakes out so far is that there is a lot of doubt as to whether the AF will be able to keep enough of them in the air, or enough pilots trained for them to do anything other than make cameo appearances. The unit cost keeps rising, the performance keeps getting revised down. This thing is going to be like the Space Shuttle (IMO), too expensive for what it does and never able to to fulfill all of its intended roles. EDIT: removed annoying double-double-negative
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> The bigger problem is the legal system isn't a logical system, it's a social construct.
NewAs others pointed out, it's hard to say how much copyrighted material the model already contains in the weights.
NewHey all, this is the first time I'm really sharing this.
Newits like owning a personal computer in 1986.
Not at all, actually.
A car battery with reduced range is still perfectly useable as a storage battery for a PV system.
Here in Argentina we are in permanent summer time GMT-3 since a long time, but we should be in GMT-4.
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>Putting things the other way around, USAF is about 40% of U.S.
>Putting things the other way around, USAF is about 40% of U.S. military by value, so we can assume it takes about 300 billion a year to operate. A plane's life is about 30 years. It makes up 9 trillion. And there are about 6000 aircraft it in. So each consumes about 1.5 billion over its lifetime, all accounted. Now you're ready to compare our AF to someone else's. >Why is the difference of 'per aircraft lifecycle cost' so important then? Only plane for which it is comparable (actually greater) than USAF total spent per airframe is B-2A, Because you can compare each platform's "efficiency" at a given mission, as you state in the last part of your post. It relies on getting in lots of wars though to get enough data to make reliable comparisons, "fortunately" we've got that part covered. >will make it a good buy anyway. That remains to be seen / demonstrated. The way it shakes out so far is that there is a lot of doubt as to whether the AF will be able to keep enough of them in the air, or enough pilots trained for them to do anything other than make cameo appearances. The unit cost keeps rising, the performance keeps getting revised down. This thing is going to be like the Space Shuttle (IMO), too expensive for what it does and never able to to fulfill all of its intended roles. EDIT: removed annoying double-double-negative
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