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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 11 2015, @10:26PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 11 2015, @10:26PM (#169115)

    In 1942 they decided that a fission bomb could not be achieved in time to affect WW2, and basically gave up.

    No, they wanted a quick end to the war without using up too many resources, because it was straining their economy. It wasn't just for the fission bomb. If a new weapon was deemed to be more than 6 months away, the idea was dropped... until very late in the war.

    Germans did, however, have a nuclear research facility in Norway, which was bombed by the Allies at some point, and their research was slowed down.