• corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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    1 month ago

    Here’s the thing.

    • SpaceX is almost a space bus service where Boeing is a trash fire.
    • SpaceX’s rockets can deploy troops to anywhere on the planet in like an hour after launch, and send automated cargo rockets
    • starlink is a great info weapon
    • driverless ambulances? Ship us some when they’re ready

    Until they can separate Elon from Tesla/etc they have to abide.

    • Bytemeister@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      Putting 6 armed troops in a very expensive missile and dropping them in a very predictable trajectory with very poor accuracy sounds like a very expensive way to create gold star families.

      Consider this. If you needed 6 very well armed troops in an area, why not just give a pile of money to the enemy’s troops to flip a few?

      You could pay them each 10 mil, and give them a green card, and you’d save 900k on the launch cost alone. Not to mention it would be less predictable, more covert, and it would induce paranoia in the ranks.