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might as well throw money at asmongold

There's some interesting stuff happening at the DARPA Heavy Lift Challenge, but from a dollars standpoint that is tiny and from a TRL standpoint it is a 6 if it's lucky spectrum.ieee.org/video-friday...

So they can make shitloads of money getting dodgy contracts awarded for kickbacks? That's certainly why THEY are there.

bullying them and showing them how cool our missiles are until we run out of them

Can confirm

When you think about it, America's overdue to conclusively lose a major war in such a way that the consequences become absolutely backbreaking for several generations.

Is going to corruption, yeah.

Achilles heal of capitalism. It’s usually more profitable to do better marketing than make better products. Works okay until external competition shows up.

ICYMI (this came to mind earlier today when I saw a headline about the pentagon opening its proving ranges up to "small, innovative" companies.) abcnews.com/US/trump-son...

The "AI generated proposal memo" class

We could’ve bought Ukraine’s interceptor drone tech but instead we gave the money to a vaporware startup with as far as I can tell zero manufacturing capacity because it added Don Junior to its board

The military industrial complex now is just a long con to steal as much money from the government as possible.

Yup, this. They have no concept of what modern warfare is (or even just non-vintage warfare at this point TBH). They also have the strategic vision and understanding of a braindead gnat and absolutely zero understanding that 99.9% of what makes a functional military is fucking LOGISTICS...