Well Dark-Enlightenment has been speeding up since trump took office. I am not surprised that the neo fascist movent aiming to transform Silicon Valley tech giants into authoritatian city states would embrace and strenghen its relationship with the military.
Someone is gonna need to defend your company-state proprety against minorities, former employees and the annoying non-fascists.
The only cope I guess I can find, is that there’s a good chance they just blow themselves up or something because they decided to “move fast and break things (TM)” with their weapons.
And for special forces, in particular, both in and out of wartime. They'll take systems straight from a lab or buy drones off Amazon or even commission their own cheap $5k (cheap at the time) drones to conduct their efforts.
The rest of DOD has shifted to very conservative approaches to system development and sustainment (for better or worse, mostly worse IMO). It's stuck in the mindset of "This aircraft platform will be around for 50 years." Which is not conducive to the move fast, breaking things or not, approach.
Another problem with that mindset is that in a war, things won't be around for anywhere close to that long. What matters is how fast and cheaply you can build things, not how durable they are.
Nearly 300,000 planes built by the US during that war. Peak production in 1944 approached 100,000 new planes built in one year. The nature of the aircraft also changed substantially across the war, it's not like they took a few 1938 designs and churned out more and more each year. What was being made was constantly changing as their understanding of what was needed and what did or didn't work changed and engineering advances led to better systems (by some measure).
These weren't planes meant to last a century like the B-52 is currently targeting.
The JSF project began in 1993 (studies) with competitions later. First flight training batches delivered in 2012 and it reached operational status in 2015. 22 years from conception to operation. A grossly unsustainable approach for a military capability. It's not even one of the worst systems I'm aware of.
yes, they have the old belief that ethics slow down science. Those people are wrong about everything and incapable of science, or progress, even by accident. Their beliefs are incoherent and baseless, this attempt will fail and crumble under its own contradictions, as all the previous ones have.
You're on the right track but omitting a crucial element that comes before crumbling failure.
Tactical control and an embedded influence that ensures that "failure" never manifests in the way that it has for civilizations past.
"They" pivot. From keyboards to motorbikes. Nuclear power plants to...'sex toys'.
Pivot in such a way you can't really point a finger at who's to blame and before you've got a handle on it they've spun around into something else again.
yeah the everchanging nature is hard to keep up with, it always mutates, their failure will hurt many innocents around them, not sure what you mean about the sextoys and motorbikes tho, are there neo fascist sextoys and bikes brand i don't know about ?
Absolutly ! Fascists have a long history of allyship with Capitalists. It also seems like the interests of billionaires no longer align with capitalism and require big policy changes which fascists are willing to bring
Well Dark-Enlightenment has been speeding up since trump took office. I am not surprised that the neo fascist movent aiming to transform Silicon Valley tech giants into authoritatian city states would embrace and strenghen its relationship with the military. Someone is gonna need to defend your company-state proprety against minorities, former employees and the annoying non-fascists.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Enlightenment