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Stamps, they have something that I doubt an NFT can aspire to.
kingdragonfly: SpaceX's Starlink satellite internet service, which has provided Ukraine's military with broadband communications in its defense against Russia's military, was "never never meant to be weaponized," Gwynne Shotwell, SpaceX's president and chief operating officer, said during a conference in Washington D.C.
Has he actually been told that the entire network since 1968 has military origins? My first military contact with it was in 1982 in the field. Consequently, no kitchen knives should be delivered to Ukraine, as they could be used for military purposes. 😂
- NET: FTTH, OPNsense, 10G backbone, GWN APs, ipPBX
- SRV: 12 RU HA server cluster, 0.1 PB storage on premise
- IoT: thread, zigbee, tasmota, BidCoS, LoRa, WX suite, IR
- 3D: two 3D printers, 3D scanner, CNC router, laser cutter
SpaceX is up to its .... in Military contract $$$
SpaceX would probably not exist if it were not for Military, NASA and other Government flows of money.
Military basically paid for whole launch complex upgrade for Falcon 9 launches.
Military contract profit is very large, so kept the company liquid through its struggles.
2006-2008: In 2006, SpaceX won its first major military contract, worth $278 million, to develop the Falcon 1 and Falcon 9 rockets for the U.S. Air Force. The company also continued to receive funding from NASA under the COTS program.
2009-2012: During this period, SpaceX continued to win military contracts, including a $1.6 billion contract from NASA to resupply the International Space Station (ISS) using the Falcon 9 and Dragon spacecraft. The company also received funding from the U.S. Department of Energy for research on advanced rocket engines.
2013-2016: In 2013, SpaceX won a contract from the U.S. Air Force worth $90 million to launch a GPS satellite using the Falcon 9 rocket.
In 2015, SpaceX received a $33.6 million contract from DARPA to develop a reusable hypersonic vehicle.
2017-2020: During this period, SpaceX won several more military contracts, including a $96.5 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to launch a GPS satellite and a $297 million contract from the U.S. Space Force to launch a National Security Payload. The company also continued to receive funding from NASA for Crew Dragon development and ISS resupply missions.
Starlink also won tax dollars $$$.
December 2020, SpaceX won $885 million in RDOF funding to provide high-speed internet to over 642,000 rural homes and businesses in 35 states.
Kicker here is that Starlink won the contract by stating it could meet certain performance it has not delivered on.
Its not everything as info is scattered here and there, re research grants and such parceled out.
A few million here a few million there.
Individual states may also compete to have programs sited in their state to bring prestige.
Lavrov laughed at for suggesting Ukraine started the war.
Sergei Lavrov: Russian foreign minister laughed at for Ukraine war claims - BBC News
Yeh Lavrov. Shades of 'Bagdahd Bob?'
He did not look happy through Putin's long speech.
Maybe someone in front was farting through whole thing.
I got impression it might be his normal look till I saw him greet the China(CCP) top diplomat,
he was positively beaming
The Flatpack Cardboard Drone from Australia.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-k-2W23s3Ys
Though the packaging fails I have seen with goods shipped with boxes that can hardly contain contents.
Quality of cardboard seems to have taken a dive, so hopefully they have better sources.
I've made and flown coreflute (think the stuff used for real-estate signs) RC planes, and I can't help but think that might be a better option, but I'm sure the people who developed this thing had thought of that.
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The cost of most components in fixed wing is surprisingly cheap - basic foamy kits can be had for a couple of hundred dollars. Other things such as FPV gear so you can see what the plane can see cost a bit more, but when compared to other military equipment, it is still a laughably cheap way to find out what your enemy is doing.
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Flying a wave of dirt-cheap drones at a target protected with such a system allows an adversary to work out how many targets the system can deal with and for how long, before it is overwhelmed or run dry - and that's when the warheads are flown in...
Indeed. The argument can be made that Russia sending swarms of cheapish Iranian Shahed drones (worth about $20,000), all of which are shot down by $250,000 anti-air missiles, is a successful and valid method to wear through Ukrainian anti-air stocks.
Any drones that get through to hit their targets are just an added bonus.
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Place a book of matches (remember those?) and a lighted cigarette (remember that) on the drone, and fly it into an ammo dump. Being cheap and flimsy does not make you insignificant.
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