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How much did the drone cost and how much does the fancy laser system cost to operate? In other words, how much taxpayer money was just wasted on this??
Because Taxpayers paid for both it cancels out! Efficiency!
The US military budget is inflated as hell, but lasers are neat for this kind of stuff precisely because shooting something down costs only the electricity needed to power the laser, instead of a missile or some fancy airburst shells.
That’s great but this incident still wasted tax dollars nonetheless
the money was already wasted, this incident didn't waste shit. all that happened was the money being spent on this particular weapon has been ended. in the long run, it probably saved the taxpayers some money.
and quite frankly, if the US government wants to shoot down its own military hardware, then by golly we should let them. the fewer weapons a fascist terrorist regime has, the better.
Oof