• Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works
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    3 months ago

    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.

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      3 months ago

      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.

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              3 months ago

              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.