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Watching Ukraine burn through ammo fighting Russia has the US Army rethinking how much it really needs for when war breaks out (www.businessinsider.com)
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[–] Ulara@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Another reason is that it is much more interesting and impressive to create some super advanced and costly tech instead of maintaining huge stockpiles of simpler materiel.

[–] petrescatraian@libranet.de 2 points 2 years ago

@Ulara well, it's more effective to have one shot-one strike than to try getting collateral damage all the way until you hit the target, so getting high-tech in normal weapons does make sense from this point of view.