Waylander said:
You mean billion, don't you?
7,416 bill € and you have better Leos than we have.
Is a little off-topic, but... I prefer to utilize the figures in millions not in billions (7.416 mill € = Seven thousand, four hundred sixteen millions €). Remember Waylander, in the Castilian (spanish language), the term billion does not means the same thing that in English, to remain sane :loony I prefer to avoid its use while writing in English.
A "Billón" remains in the Castilian as 1.000.000.000.000 = "Millón de millones". We use the term "Millardo" (from the french Milliard) to the 1.000.000.000 = Mil millones.
You know... Spain is different!
Or not... France and Italy use the same system, I think.
Sorry for the off-topic...
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Totoro said:
it'd be nice if we could compile a spending list broken down a little bit. million dollars is not the same worth in UK and in India, for example. Like, braking each figure down to army, navy and air force and then furthermore each of those broken down to salaries and running expenses, modernization and new equipment budgets and finally r&d budgets.
Totoro, most of western countries publish their Defense Budgets itemized to the last Cent. It would be a very hard task itemize all in this forum, message to message, each block or seat of expense. Only the Spanish Defense budget is around
208 pages, and logically in Spanish. Translate dozens of budgets, of hundreds or thousands pages, coping some figures here, still with resummes, cuts and simplifications...
Maybe the figures for the most important chapters or a specific seat of interest?