Alyrium Denryle wrote:Self-interest talking: We could use it for research grants to increase our technology and knowledge base. That way, we can have even niftier weapons of mass destruction once the base concepts are down
Yeah I'm sure thats what you had in mine.
Others speaking: Or we could also use a few billion of that massive defense budget(it is high, even for american defense budgets last year was IIRC 379.3 billion) for financial aid for students, grants to schools, paying for roads etc etc etc.
That's what the other 4/5ths of the budget goes too. Why the fuck should we rob the military of funding? That money is not simply a wish list, it is what is required, and its really too little. It should not be necessary to canacled two dozen programs, just to pay for a replacement for quarter century old tanks and IFV's. Yet that has happened.
"This cult of special forces is as sensible as to form a Royal Corps of Tree Climbers and say that no soldier who does not wear its green hat with a bunch of oak leaves stuck in it should be expected to climb a tree"
— Field Marshal William Slim 1956
General Dynamics Armament and Technical Products (GDATP) has been awarded a system development and demonstration contract to design, produce, and integrate the Joint Strike Fighter’s (JSF) gun system. GDATP is developing an internal and external gun system based on the GAU-12/U 25mm Gatling gun. An internally mounted gun system will arm the F-35A Conventional Takeoff and Landing (CTOL) aircraft variant and an externally mounted gun system will arm the F-35B Short Takeoff and Vertical Landing (STOVL) and F-35C Carrier-Based (CV) aircraft variants.
"If scientists and inventors who develop disease cures and useful technologies don't get lifetime royalties, I'd like to know what fucking rationale you have for some guy getting lifetime royalties for writing an episode of Full House." - Mike Wong
"The present air situation in the Pacific is entirely the result of fighting a fifth rate air power." - U.S. Navy Memo - 24 July 1944
