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The US Military is Starting to Get Really Interested in Starship

posted by martyb on Tuesday June 01 2021, @09:17PM   Printer-friendly
from the logistics++ dept.

Freeman writes:

The US military is starting to get really interested in Starship:

As part of last week's federal budget rollout, a process during which the White House proposes funding levels for fiscal year 2022, the US Air Force released its "justification book" to compare its current request to past budget data. The 462-page book contains a lot of information about how the Air Force spends its approximately $200 billion budget.

For those tracking the development of SpaceX's ambitious Starship vehicle, there is an interesting tidbit tucked away on page 305, under the heading of "Rocket Cargo" (see .pdf). The Air Force plans to invest $47.9 million into this project in the coming fiscal year, which begins October 1.

"The Department of the Air Force seeks to leverage the current multi-billion dollar commercial investment to develop the largest rockets ever, and with full reusability to develop and test the capability to leverage a commercial rocket to deliver AF cargo anywhere on the Earth in less than one hour, with a 100-ton capacity," the document states.

Starship, more than just an expensive ride. Quick military equipment delivery en route.

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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 01 2021, @10:16PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 01 2021, @10:16PM (#1140866)

    That'll wipe the smile off Mohammed al-Jihadi.

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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 01 2021, @11:53PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 01 2021, @11:53PM (#1140890)

    I like that, especially if the pigs land going Mach 10.

    Just one pig would be pretty good though. That box in the the middle of Mecca is actually a small stone building. There is a window hidden underneath the black silk covering. If you put a precision-guided munition seeker on the nose of a pig, you might just be able to steer a pig through that window. It would be funny as Hell.