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Lockheed Martin built a thing to intercept ICBMs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBMU6l6GsdM Why are we even bothering any more? Who is going to attack us with better weapons than the ones we already have?
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raverrn posted:Because 1. That's how we got to 'better weapons than everyone else' in the FIRST place and 2. Think of the non-military applications. This made sense when our "enemies" were superpowers with massive standing armies and R&D budgets. Now they're some just some random dudes with cold war leftovers. I'm not saying stop all military R&D, I'm saying "Why the gently caress do we need ICBM interceptors and billion-dollar air superiority fighters?" As for your second point, it's not like we have to burn the money if it's not being used for bigger explosions. We can fund non-military R&D directly.
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Plinkey posted:...but you get about 6 of them for 1 billion. Never mind the total program cost, most of that was just practice. The 1 billion figure included the cost of getting the software working correctly.  Also, the payouts to the pilots' families when they fall out of the sky like rocks.
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Aphrodite posted:That's just what all of our enemies are waiting for. It's pretty telling how DARPA went from "We're funding robots to help troops on the battlefield carry heavy poo poo" to "We're funding robots to pull people out of collapsed buildings" in just a few years.
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