As a fairly liberal American, I must admit, I wasn’t always a fan of our military industrial complex, but hearing how well the Patriot missile system has been performing, now I’m like, “Yay, military industrial complex! Do your thing!”
The engineers who polished the Patriot’s performance to what it is deserve some kind of medal for their service.
If there’s one thing I wish they would do more research on, it’s how to reduce the cost without compromising the performance, now that they have real world data on how the missiles perform. Perhaps the missiles always use less than a certain amount of fuel, or battery charge, or whatever, and this amount is less than the redundant amount they put in the missiles, so they could save some cost here or there without impacting performance. The expense of the Patriot missiles is its biggest drawback. Each missile costs over a million dollars. It’s good to know they’re so effective, but still, I wince a bit at the price.
They can still replenish those. Ukraine needs more aid and ammunitions… republicans…
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As a fairly liberal American, I must admit, I wasn’t always a fan of our military industrial complex, but hearing how well the Patriot missile system has been performing, now I’m like, “Yay, military industrial complex! Do your thing!”
The engineers who polished the Patriot’s performance to what it is deserve some kind of medal for their service.
If there’s one thing I wish they would do more research on, it’s how to reduce the cost without compromising the performance, now that they have real world data on how the missiles perform. Perhaps the missiles always use less than a certain amount of fuel, or battery charge, or whatever, and this amount is less than the redundant amount they put in the missiles, so they could save some cost here or there without impacting performance. The expense of the Patriot missiles is its biggest drawback. Each missile costs over a million dollars. It’s good to know they’re so effective, but still, I wince a bit at the price.
They can still replenish those. Ukraine needs more aid and ammunitions… republicans…