| ▲ | gaigalas an hour ago | |
Well, it's not reusable. You're wasting a resource destined for hypersonic deterrence on some sheets of mylar that float around. I mean, you can do that, but it would be a tremendous embarrassment. | ||
| ▲ | walrus01 an hour ago | parent [-] | |
> Well, it's not reusable No it's not. And it's indeed very costly. But on the grand scale of things of what the US DoD spends per day as a fully loaded lifetime cost to operate a single SSN, SSBN or aircraft carrier, it's a drop in the bucket. They spend absurd amounts of funds on all sorts of things. | ||