US attorney in Washington DC moves to dismiss charges against David Hearn, telling court that documents indicated ‘damage was the result of flawed installation’
Yeah, they use a flying lawnmower. This is something I’ve said many times on this platform which nobody seems to grasp.
If the missile you fire is worth ten times what it’s intercepting, that’s a problem for you, because your enemy can just keep firing cheap shit until you run out of missiles.
Even a successful intercept is a win for them, because you’re down a million dollars, and they’re down 60 grand.
When Russia invaded Ukraine and their tractor factories retooled to make tanks, their GDP dropped tenfold. Because a tractor is worth ten times as much as a tank.
But the people who put their boots on and go to work and weld metal shit…continued to put their boots on and go to work and weld metal shit.
There’s a couple Ohio senators that represent one of the few places that welds military-grade armor in the US that would strongly disagree with that assessment.
There’s a reason the army gets more tanks than they know what to do with, and part of that reason is maintaining expertise that takes decades to develop.
We don’t have any to spare because Iran has figured out how to overwhelm them.
I read the other day that our remaining stock of Patriots is so low that when US bases have missiles incoming, they essentially have to triage which ones they try to shoot down; if they don’t think there are troops or personnel where the missile is going, they just let it hit.
Edit: … And that’s pay walled, apologies. It’s referenced here as well: https://theintercept.com/2026/07/28/iran-missiles-drones-us-air-defenses/
Yeah, they use a flying lawnmower. This is something I’ve said many times on this platform which nobody seems to grasp.
If the missile you fire is worth ten times what it’s intercepting, that’s a problem for you, because your enemy can just keep firing cheap shit until you run out of missiles.
Even a successful intercept is a win for them, because you’re down a million dollars, and they’re down 60 grand.
Money is funny.
When Russia invaded Ukraine and their tractor factories retooled to make tanks, their GDP dropped tenfold. Because a tractor is worth ten times as much as a tank.
But the people who put their boots on and go to work and weld metal shit…continued to put their boots on and go to work and weld metal shit.
what tractor is worth ten times as much as what tank?!
I believe the point was that a tractor’s economic output is 10x a tanks, not the initial cost of each.
A tank’s economic output is zero. A tractor is infinitely more beneficial.
There’s a couple Ohio senators that represent one of the few places that welds military-grade armor in the US that would strongly disagree with that assessment.
There’s a reason the army gets more tanks than they know what to do with, and part of that reason is maintaining expertise that takes decades to develop.
Hell yeah dude, death to America!