What goes up is expensive beyond net benefit and it still comes down. Rest assured it will be used on enemies. Just not the enemies you think.
Duh... And we keep bringing foreigners in and giving them experience and access to sensitive technology.
Oba-Mao really screwed this country in this category...part of his agenda.
I have no doubt Russia and China hide or don’t report major parts of their defense budgets, but even then, the USA outspends them greatly.
But, if they are developing better weapons for 1/2, 1/4, or 1/8th the price, what does it say about our government and military bureaucracy?
We need to REPATRIATE a lot of companies.
We have sent far, far, far too much manufacturing to China, and to other places.
Enough.
The REAL reason Obama disbanded NASA.
We have existing technology that could have already mined every Chicom/Russian/Nork/Paki/Iranian satellite in orbit.
If we haven’t already done it we deserve whatever happens.
The Klingons and Romulons have new starships and weapons we need to counter act. There is a starship gap!
I remember when President Ronald Reagan promoted the STAR WARS program -— the majority of Democrats and many, many others trashed and belittled him for the idea. He was a visionary and he was right.
I have no doubt ‘space weapons’ have been in play for decades.