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tristanjtoday at 12:46 PM2 repliesview on HN

SpaceX received a $4 billion military contract to do this, but with radar and from orbit.


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Aboutplantstoday at 2:51 PM

Multi billion dollar spend to “see” $2,000 aircraft and try to shoot it down with multi million dollar equipment. The speed to produce and cost effectiveness of these drones are seemingly at a massive advantage right now vs Defense capabilities and straight up cost and looks to be that way for a good while.

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Avicebrontoday at 1:37 PM

As much as I like to point and guffaw at "bad evil rocket man" the from orbit bit is doing a massive amount of lift (pun not intended) for that price.

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