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Re:Air Force Strike Takes Out SpaceX's Floating GovSat Booster by dzhiurgis on Thursday February 08, 2018 @08:36PM (#16337202)
The booster was probably already paid for (at $62M per launch I expect one cost at least $100M), specifically not to be recovered.

While it was possible to recover 100 million dollars from the ocean, gov decided to spend another million to destroy it :|

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Re:Air Force Strike Takes Out SpaceX's Floating GovSat Booster by valuearb on Thursday February 08, 2018 @10:26PM (#16337693)
The booster was not worth $100M, it was worthless at that point. The bombs were likely free, already part of the training budget.
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