That tracks. The defense primes have zero incentive to make things cheaper — their business model is cost-plus. A guy building something for 10k in his garage is an existential threat to programs billing 500k per unit. Of course they ignored him until the geopolitical situation made it impossible to keep ignoring.

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srean 2 hours ago | parent [-]

> That tracks. The defense primes have zero incentive to make things cheaper

Same in medical imaging industry.

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Mars008 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Well, there are cheap portable ultrasound scanners and endoscopes.

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srean 2 hours ago | parent [-]

True.

I was talking about those that are meant for hospitals. Was peripherally involved with a fledgling startup that was developing something cheap. Hospitals straightaway said noway.

	▲	projektfu 39 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		They would be desirable in places with poor advanced imaging penetration like Brazil. Usually only the largest city in a state has this sort of imaging.