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CoastalCodertoday at 3:38 PM2 repliesview on HN

If you think Milspec is expensive, you should see the cost of not having a Milspec supply chain while still being risk-averse.


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quickthrowmantoday at 8:47 PM

That’s a damn good point, probably more costly and more of a hassle to adopt off-the-shelf products to work reliably in a military environment while minimizing risk.

throwaway27448today at 3:48 PM

We could always be less risk averse. We still seem to kill civilians at high rates and our own soldiers signed up to die. Gold-plated weapons aren't much good against peer powers anyway; it's production volume that wins those wars.