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US Military Concerned About Losing Their High Tech Edge

posted by martyb on Saturday April 11 2015, @09:42AM   Printer-friendly
from the US-Military--and/or--the-Military-Industrial-Complex? dept.

anubi writes:

I guess we have all seen all those wonderful toys coming from China. Technologies unimaginable a few years ago, like quadricopters and microminiature concealed cameras. It looks like the US Military is taking notice.

Other countries (such as China) build our stuff, understand how it works, and have found out how to make it very inexpensively. A remote-controlled drone was once the exclusive domain of law enforcement... now just about anyone who wants one can buy one.

Yup, it looks like the-powers-that-be are realizing their cats are getting out of the bag...

 
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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by rts008 on Saturday April 11 2015, @11:18AM

    by rts008 (3001) on Saturday April 11 2015, @11:18AM (#168942)

    This is just a fluff FUD peice to chum the waters for the congressional budget hearings coming up.

    Listening to these people would have you imagining 'enemy' drones so thick, they would form a Dyson Sphere, and you would risk inhaling one by just stepping outside.

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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by Thexalon on Saturday April 11 2015, @01:14PM

    by Thexalon (636) on Saturday April 11 2015, @01:14PM (#168952)

    Perhaps a better headline would be: "US Military Concerned About Losing Their Insane Levels of Funding"

    I mean, the thing about the US military is that it's hard-pressed to explain what exactly it's accomplishing, or who it's gearing up to fight. The US military is putting sagans of dollars towards planes that have yet to fly a combat mission, ships that can be taken out with a single missile, and tanks that the army hasn't asked for and doesn't really want. All to be able to take on the rest of the world in a conventional war that nobody would even try to fight due to the US' overwhelming nuclear arsenal. Oh, and most of the big forces in the world (EU nations mostly) are US allies, too, which makes it even more ridiculous.

    Ike was right about the risks of the military-industrial complex.

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    • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday April 11 2015, @03:59PM

      by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Saturday April 11 2015, @03:59PM (#168973) Homepage

      Yeah, its like vise-versa from what the article described. The problem is not that China is embracing our technology but that the military industrial complex is embracing China's slipshod cheapshit design and manufacturing rush-job mentality.

    • (Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Saturday April 11 2015, @04:32PM

      by Grishnakh (2831) on Saturday April 11 2015, @04:32PM (#168981)

      Yes, many big forces are friendly EU nations, but China and Russia are not, and they're the biggest (next to us). And both of them, unlike the EU nations, seem to have some level of conquest and hegemony as their goals.

      You're absolutely right about the US military pouring money into stuff which doesn't work though.

      • (Score: 2) by el_oscuro on Monday April 13 2015, @12:24AM

        by el_oscuro (1711) on Monday April 13 2015, @12:24AM (#169473)

        And trying to get rid of shit that does, like the A-10 Warthog.

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