I realize that. And not only the computer stuff but a lot of things in different areas from advances in medicine to rocket technologies.

But why should we continue this road? We have been living in a world where you can no longer have any serious war for more than 60 years. There are nuclear weapons and having a war is just the dumbest thing you could do.

You can still invade Iraq or Chechnya or Ukraine and beat down a less powerful state but for this we have more then enough weapons, no need to get new ones.

This isn't a weapon, it's an easy-to-fly truck (whereas helicopters are notoriously difficult to fly). Armies need trucks, for humanitarian missions as well as conflicts. Some companies target the military as a first customer because if a product does what they need they'll buy at scale and you can recoup the development costs in a much shorter timeframe.

You are right, plus this is an absurd over-sized gadget. I doubt you could pack it into an aircraft carrier that easily. And if you did get it off to its 'humanitarian military duties' imagine, trundling along a road, taking up both carriageways, I am sure that a few kids with rocks could disable those rotors if the telegraph poles don't get there first. It has no real application hence it is a military 'maybe we need one of these too' gadgets.

Look again. It is less than a lane wide with the blades stowed.

Because if we ever scale the military-industrial complex back we might find out that automation has destroyed even more jobs than the wildest luddite fears.

... I mean or not but it's a trillion dollars or so a year you can't cut spending without destroying the entire state of new mexico.

And recent events confirm the wisdom of that course.

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