Your line of commenting here is unreasonable and does a disservice to any valid criticism of military spending.
Planes cannot be fixed instantly. I would hope that is obvious.
This was a powerful storm that did a huge amount of damage to more than just these planes. You could take a more generous and broad view of the events and ask if saving these planes would have been worth the opportunity cost to other resources that would have then been left in the storm's path.
Planes cannot be fixed instantly. I would hope that is obvious.
This was a powerful storm that did a huge amount of damage to more than just these planes. You could take a more generous and broad view of the events and ask if saving these planes would have been worth the opportunity cost to other resources that would have then been left in the storm's path.