DOD rates and volume way down

No. You're wrong. What amounts went to something like a super carrier? A new sub or two? Those are HUGE tickets.

There's R&D projects as well that consume billions all on their own.

Satellites and other weapons for space.

Last year the Air Forces out of atmosphere glider landed after like 3 months, no one even knew it was up there, and it's been around for years.

 

It was up there for 2 years.
The US Air Force’s X-37B spaceplane lands after spending two years in space

 

I mean do you intellectuals have even the slightest grasp on the amount of fuel our aircraft use?

Just the lubricants. lol

And it ain't the stuff you buy at Walmart.

 

Schnooks? Oy vey iz mir.

 

Take two different expenses and think which one involves more trucking.
Scenario 1. A big training exercise at fort Polk involving 1500 troops and all their gear/Humvees/apcs/etc etc.
Scenario 2. Selling at a huge loss 15 black hawk combat helicopters to Pakistan.