Sure, take this chart[0] and multiply it times the number of air frames one would anticipate needing to accomplish various missions. Not only are the bureaucratic meetings amplified, but the O&M long tail starts to kill you with the logistics of moving and storing parts, training specialists on each aircraft, administering the additional specialists... it keeps going and going.

As an aside, I didn't say it was "way better", I just said they would come out ahead even burning money for decades.

0: https://www.dau.mil/tools/t/Department-of-Defense-Acquisitio...