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Originally Posted by dalem
Without meaning to give ANY compliments to our government's fine military procurement system  I'd rather see 10B spent on an ABM technology that might work thatn a superjet that we don't really need right now.
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Second that.
If you study history, technological advanced nations who don't continually explore new ways of fielding better weapons are doomed to defeat at the hands of another nation who attempted to find new ways of beating the current status quo.
What people don't realize is that every dollar we spent on R&D on anything gets recycled back through our economy and magnifies the effect by 3-4 times. The problem is that those effects are not quantifiable. What's not quantifiable are skill sets and knowledge gained. We as a whole country improve our knowledge base everytime we try something no matter how little of a chance we succeed.
A failure is worth 1000 successes because failures teaches us what works and what don't and we continually improve our knowledge. As long as USA remains unafraid of taking risks and take on risky and unknown projects, USA will remain as the most powerful and technological advanced nation in the world.