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Senators Introduce Bipartisan Bill to Guarantee Military Right to Repair Its Equipment (www.warren.senate.gov)

submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Tim Sheehy (R-Mont.) introduced the Warrior Right to Repair Act of 2025, legislation that would require contractors to provide the Department of Defense (DoD) with access to technical data and materials the military needs to repair and maintain its own equipment.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

Laws for me, not for thee.

[–] [email protected] 207 points 2 days ago (6 children)

How about extending this to cover your humble civilians too

[–] [email protected] 53 points 2 days ago

haha no

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[–] [email protected] 98 points 2 days ago (15 children)

So the military has been bound by the same handcuffs that McDonalds is with it's ice cream machines?

It was messed up that McDonalds agreed to that. It's TERRIFYING that the group in charge of our military ever did.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago

McDonalds made money from the deal. They were paid by Taylor to force their franchisees to use their ice cream machines with the extortionist service contract.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Yeah its absolutely wild. Even Louis Rossman has done some videos about the military's lack of right to repair. Its insane to me that you'd buy a multi-billion dollar jet like the F-35, and legally be unable to repair it without calling in (and paying a hefty service contract for) someone from Lockheed or Pratt and Whitney to troubleshoot it. That can't be sustainable if you do end up needing to send a ton of these things into combat

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 days ago

Not to mention the toxic incentives it creates when the vendor is the only one allowed to repair the thing they sold you. If they get a paycheck every time they repair the thing they build, then obviously they're gonna build that thing to break.

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