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.
How about extending this to cover your humble civilians too
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!
So the military has been bound by the same handcuffs that McDonalds is with it’s ice cream machines?
Yes… It’s funny because I worked on a platform called the MLRS. I saw what repairs to the circuitry of the GPS and other modules look like. I could have fixed it myself… by hand… The circuit boards were vietnam era looking stuff (the platform was from the 80’s, but developed during the 70s)… Meaning the trace pitch was measured in mm. Like I could pop open shit and eyeball and solder that shit with crappy $10 bargain bin soldering iron. But nah, needed to get a special civilian to show up and replace the board (they didn’t even try to fix it).
Unclear if you worked for the army, or for Mcdonalds. Either way you were probably paid about the same, and had to go to war every day.
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 mulit-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
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.
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.
Laws for me, not for thee.
