Oh, Just one Little $100 million F35 Jet and the half million people making bank, making wages, from this death Machine

“Fascism is capitalism plus murder.” MICIMATT and Beyond! Dual Use, Brother, Triple Use, Sister.

It is more than just a military industrial complex!

• engineering; math; aerospace; chemistry; education; law; history; political science; biology; geology; business; pharmacy; banking; entertainment; finance; coding; accounting; medicine; computing; architecture; psychology; anthropology; planning; government; geography; classics; journalism; communications; publishing; media; insurance; real estate; all industries.

That’s the Military et al (see above) military offensive weapons killer industrial complex.

Way beyond McGOvern’s cute thing: MICIMATT is a an extension of the concept of the MIC (Military–industrial complex) that stands for Military-Industrial-Congressional-Intelligence-Media-Academia-Think-Tank. The term was coined by Ray McGovern, a former CIA officer turned political activist and critic of United States foreign policy.^[1][2]

McGovern recommends remembering the acronym by thinking "Mickey Mouse" which rhymes with the intended pronunciation of MICIMATT ("Micky Matt")

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” ― Upton Sinclair, I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked

The F-35 production effort is led by Lockheed Martin, with Northrop Grumman and BAE Systems as principal partners. The F-35 is produced in countries that have either purchased or plan to purchase the aircraft, which includes the United States, seven partner nations as well as Foreign Military Sales buying nations. The partner nations are the United Kingdom, Italy, Netherlands, Canada, Denmark, Norway, and Australia.

Together with the F-22 Raptor, the F-35 Lightning II is the only true fifth-generation fighter aircraft, and utilizes the latest technologies within advanced aerostructures, sensor systems, electronics, and stealth capabilities.

F-35 deliverables — One Company!

Some of the more than 80+ unique parts that Terma supplies to the F-35 program:

• Composite leading edges for the aircraft's Horizontal Tails

• Composite skins for the Vertical and Horizontal Stabilizers

• Advanced lightweight composite components for the Center Fuselage

• Missionized Gun Pods for the STOVL and CV Variants

• Data Acquisition (DART) Pods for Flight Test Instrumentation

• Air-to-Ground Pylons

• Composite element rings for the F135 engine

• Radar Electronics

Funded by Italy and managed by local firm Leonardo, the center is co-run with Lockheed Martin and the F-35 Joint Program Office and has already serviced Italian, Norwegian and Dutch F-35s.

The tighter cooperation on F-35 logistics is giving Europe greater responsibility while at the same time creating greater inter-dependance with the U.S.

Dubbed the F-35 Euro-Mediterranean Airframe Depot, the center sits alongside a final assembly line for the jet which has turned out Italian and Dutch F-35s and is where Lockheed Martin staff have handled sensitive aspects of assembly such as anti-radar coatings.

Cameri is the only site in Europe offering heavy maintenance and is now expanding its operation as European fleets grow.

At the centre of this is US defence company Lockheed Martin, the company tasked with producing these planes. Lockheed Martin sits at the head of a vast international network of suppliers and manufacturers. From Boston to Britain to Bavaria, the F-35 programme partners with 1,650 high-tech suppliers.

The F-35 fighter jet's supply chain involves over 1,900 companies. This includes both domestic and international suppliers, with a significant number being small businesses. U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) says the program participants share a common, global pool of spare parts, managed by the prime contractors, and held in over 50 facilities.

Defense Logistics Agency Distribution employees unload an F-35 joint strike fighter wheel being sent to maintenance for repair at DLA Distribution Hill, Utah, April 13, 2022.

• Annual Economic Impact: $72 Billion (based on an independent estimate by AeroDynamic Advisory)
  

• 290,000+ jobs

We are proud to partner with 1,900 high-tech suppliers, of which nearly 1,000 are small business corporations.

“Machinists Union members take great pride in building the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter for three U.S. military services. The F-35 program creates a powerful economic impact for our nation and it produces a game-changing aircraft that keeps our fighter pilots safe. Now is the time to invest in the best air-to-air fighter by ramping up the production line to reduce unit costs and continue to handle the world’s current and emerging threats.”

–Robert Martinez Jr., President, International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM)

Faustian Bargain? America is a killer, bloodless, orgy of blood Cun-Tree, and so are all the companies and countries putting bolts and wings and nose cones on these fucking killer jets.

Q. How much does the F-35 cost?

A. For Production Lots 15 through 17, the average flyaway cost of an F-35A was $82.5 million; $109 million for an F-35B, and $102.1 million per F-35C.¹

The F-35 team is working across government and industry for greater affordability. Lockheed Martin has significantly lowered our share of cost per flight hour over the last five years.²

“All day long this man would toil thus, his whole being centered upon the purpose of making twenty-three instead of twenty-two and a half cents an hour; and then his product would be reckoned up by the census taker, and jubilant captains of industry would boast of it in their banquet halls, telling how our workers are nearly twice as efficient as those of any other country. If we are the greatest nation the sun ever shone upon, it would seem to be mainly because we have been able to goad our wage-earners to this pitch of frenzy.” ― Upton Sinclair, The Jungle

“So long as we have wage slavery," answered Schliemann, "it matters not in the least how debasing and repulsive a task may be, it is easy to find people to perform it. But just as soon as labor is set free, then the price of such work will begin to rise. So one by one the old, dingy, and unsanitary factories will come down— it will be cheaper to build new; and so the steamships will be provided with stoking machinery , and so the dangerous trades will be made safe, or substitutes will be found for their products. In exactly the same way, as the citizens of our Industrial Republic become refined, year by year the cost of slaughterhouse products will increase; until eventually those who want to eat meat will have to do their own killing— and how long do you think the custom would survive then?— To go on to another item— one of the necessary accompaniments of capitalism in a democracy is political corruption; and one of the consequences of civic administration by ignorant and vicious politicians, is that preventable diseases kill off half our population. And even if science were allowed to try, it could do little, because the majority of human beings are not yet human beings at all, but simply machines for the creating of wealth for others. They are penned up in filthy houses and left to rot and stew in misery, and the conditions of their life make them ill faster than all the doctors in the world could heal them; and so, of course, they remain as centers of contagion , poisoning the lives of all of us, and making happiness impossible for even the most selfish. For this reason I would seriously maintain that all the medical and surgical discoveries that science can make in the future will be of less importance than the application of the knowledge we already possess, when the disinherited of the earth have established their right to a human existence.” — ― Upton Sinclair, The Jungle

Whose over-hasty impulse drave him / Past earthly joys he might secure. / Dragged through the wildest life, will I enslave him / Through flat and stale indifference / With struggling, chilling, checking, so deprave him.

—Faust, Scene 4, by Goethe

“Faustian Capitalism”—willingly entering into a devil’s/Jewish bargain with a terrible cost, sacrificing democracy for money; sacrificing humanity for a shekel.