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dylan60411/20/20241 replyview on HN

I think it'd be more apropos to compare them to fighter jets/tanks vs bullets


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nradov11/20/2024

Not really comparable. A new Starlink satellite costs ~$1M. A new F-35 costs ~$100M, and some of the guided missiles it carries actually cost more than the satellite. The militarized Starshield satellites probably cost more than their Starlink cousins but still I think you get the point that there are orders of magnitude differences in unit cost.

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