U.S. drones are too expensive for Ukraine to deploy at scale (www.wsj.com)

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This is a perfect illustration of how US military industry is optimized for soaking up as much government funding as possible instead of producing reliable weapons that can be manufactured at scale.

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[-] GaryLeChat@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 1 year ago

I really wanted to read the article but that paywall. Seems 12ft.io doesn't work on it.

[-] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 1 year ago

oh here's the archive, it's pretty short https://archive.ph/HsW9C

[-] ShiningWing@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 1 year ago

I've never understood that site, it seems to work on so few mainstream news sources (the ones that have all the paywalls in the first place) that it seems completely pointless

[-] Starlet@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

Try the "Bypass Paywalls Clean" extension

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