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Hezbollah took out a Patriot site with laser-guided artillery ammunition, China has GPS guided railgun ammunition.
Before the US gave up on a similar concept, it was going to cost at least $800,000 per shell.
the U.S. MIC is finally running headfirst into the Great Wall of Grift.
every other regional power will be using advanced smart weapons built with off the shelf Ali Express parts while the U.S. Empire is running the equivalent of ironclads (carriers) against dreadnoughts (smart/swarm weapons)
Biggest factor in cost is all the other regional great powers (China, Russia, Iran) have military industry under state enterprise while the US military industry is entirely privatized. The state enterprise military industry operates under supremacy of responsibility to the nation while the US privatized military industry has fiduciary responsibility to private capital as their only real responsibility. Under US law the corporate leadership of Raytheon, Boeing, Lockheed, and Northrop Grumman must follow a doctrine of shareholder supremacy and those shareholders are not the American people but a collection of private capital investment banks. It would be against US law for them to not make every effort (including buying politicians) to under deliver on contracts and milk every possible dollar from the US government.
perfect articulation of the Great Wall of Grift and why it's become a wall.
I thought e-weapons were supposed to be cheap
Or at least MIC said so 🤥
For one small enormous fee, you too can...
It’s cheaper compared to the markup they have on trash cans (no it isn’t)