According to the latest report from LMI, the U.S. military's corrosion cost tracking contractor, the U.S. armed forces rang up an estimated $10.2 billion in corrosion costs for their aviation and missile fleets during FY2016. (That's just over $1 billion for the Army, $3.4 billion for the Navy/USMC, and $5.7 for the USAF.) The metric is crude since it doesn't distinguish aircraft from missile corrosion costs. But it tells us corrosion is an expensive problem.
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