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.
Drop the word “military” and I’m onboard.
Boy oh boy really putting through the important shit huh? God damn do I hate our current politicians.
This is important. Rossman did an interview with a few military techs, and here are few highlights
- they couldn’t get the router password (that they own) for troubleshooting. Imagine your ISP locked you out of the router?
- it cost 200k to ship a 100k part because they weren’t allowed to fix the broken one. 300k - thats a decent sized home in some areas, just to replace a wire or something. (Look up military pricing too, I remeber seeing something about how the military pays $400 for $4 bag of fuses)
- they have to fly manufacture service techs that don’t get schematics, if they need them, an engineer is flown out who closely guards them.
Its a complete waste of taxpayer money. Money that could be redirected into more important stuff, but alas our corrupt politicians will find other things to waste it on.
We’re allowed to fix our own cars (although manufactures are trying to stop that), why can’t the military fix their own equipment or farmers fix tractors? Get a foothold in the military sector and the rest will follow.
I mean this genuinely is a good concept.
How about extending this to cover your humble civilians too
Buy military surplus equipment, I guess?
This is for civilians, we’re the ones paying the repair bills.
haha no
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.
Service contracts are where the money is at!
Laws for me, not for thee.
