The U.S. Army Spent $30 Billion On These Weapon Systems That Were Cancelled

The Pentagon scrapped the Future Combat System after spending billions on its development. Photo provided by U.S. Army

Sebastien Roblin, National Interest: Epic Fail: The U.S. Army Spent $30 Billion on These 5 Weapons (For Nothing)

What happened?

Worst of the worst?

The United States spent $610 billion in 2018 on defense, roughly one-third of all military spending on the planet —but that doesn’t mean that money is always being used efficiently. Over thirty years, the U.S. Army has engaged in two long-term wars and several briefer ones without replacing the major weapon systems which entered service in the 1970s and 80s.

In part, this is because the Army scaled back hi-tech equipment procurement in order to sustain expensive wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. But at the same time, the Army did spend $30 billion dollars on five new hi-tech weapons—all of which were cancelled.

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WNU Editor: A brutal reminder on failed U.S. Army weapon systems from the past.