jasonf2 Why_Me said: This will go nowhere imo. It's useless. Expensive – Yes. Useless not so much. While I highly doubt you are going to see these things send care packages to deployed GIs the ability to rapidly deploy 5-10 tons worth of equipment to any point in a hotzone (without an airplane) has definite possibilities. Modern warfare has become more about special forces incursion and less about mass troupe movements. The ability to send a care package to a 12 man ODA deep in country without logistics support on a 1.5 hour notice (probably less with operational focus) giving medical supplies, water, ammo and potential extraction equipment makes sense. Especially as the lift cost falls for orbital deployment in the next decade. Reply
drivinfast247 We can use this to drop tons of cash onto our enem…..allies….er enem…I mean allies Reply
Tiz.io For when you are *really* hungry for pizza and beer but you're outside the Door Dash delivery continent. Reply
SketicTom This is amazing work by the US government – will the US government be able to get food to US navy personnel? Or is that asking too much of the US government? 🤣 Reply
d0x360 jasonf2 said: Expensive – Yes. Useless not so much. While I highly doubt you are going to see these things send care packages to deployed GIs the ability to rapidly deploy 5-10 tons worth of equipment to any point in a hotzone (without an airplane) has definite possibilities. Modern warfare has become more about special forces incursion and less about mass troupe movements. The ability to send a care package to a 12 man ODA deep in country without logistics support on a 1.5 hour notice (probably less with operational focus) giving medical supplies, water, ammo and potential extraction equipment makes sense. Especially as the lift cost falls for orbital deployment in the next decade. Yeah this has a lot of use cases and this is just the first test version. It will only get better. Self for everybody who's all down on them spending money for development this thing can be used to deliver aid immediately to places that need it. They also had to pay people a salary to develop this.. that's.. a good thing for the economy. Our main export is technology and that's what this is. So should we just stop being at the forefront of technology? Just like the economy completely crumbled away because you don't want them to spend money?C ome on think people.. y'all sound like you're stuck on that hole. I have to hate the billionaires deal. Fundamental misunderstanding of how the economy works this very prevalent these days. It's unfortunate. This isn't a pro Republican post either it's got nothing to do with that. Everybody's gotten so pessimistic.. flip it. be optimistic because everything really is going to work out. Everything feels tight right now because we're trying to prevent future world war (2035) So a little pain today so we all survive tomorrow. That's what's going on literally. Reply
palladin9479 COLGeek said: Dumber than a box of rocks. Zero utility here. Hmm I suspect this has nothing to do with "supplies" in space and instead they are developing a tactical reentry vehicle. ICBM like launcher that drops a bunch of these vehicles into an area under very short notice. It's outrageously expensive, but SOC spends outrageous money on mission specific capabilities all the time. Reply
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