The MIC is wasting hundreds of billions a year. The Russians are repurposing millions of dumb aerial bombs from the last century into horrific, precision glide bombs at a couple of thousand dollars per bomb.
We use incredibly expensive technology to defend against incredibly cheap and effective weapons. That’s simply an unsustainable way to operate.
But it does benefit certain politically connected people so nothing is going to change. Its only taxpayer money after all.
hardspunned wrote: “The MIC is wasting hundreds of billions a year. The Russians are repurposing millions of dumb aerial bombs from the last century into horrific, precision glide bombs at a couple of thousand dollars per bomb.”
We did the same thing back around 2001
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Direct_Attack_Munition