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:))) In 1960s defense industry tried to save money flow with such projects. They had huge troubles, because after 1940s, military spending's constantly reduce
by simne 4y ago
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In 1960s defense industry tried to save money flow with such projects.
They had huge troubles, because after 1940s, military spending's constantly reduced, so defense industry have to cut workplaces, some firms just closed.
But there was unpredicted sequel. In 1990s, Russians spend few icbm's, to deliver few hundreds kilograms of mail to Canada. - They have made special container with parachutes and placed it instead of warhead. Then the rocket launched, and in some 20 minutes container got down to ocean about mile from Canada shore.
- zx8080 4y agoCan't find about icbm mail delivery. A link would be useful.
- simne 4y agoUnfortunately, news agencies think this is just curious, so most ignore. And my own resources to store/index such things are very limited, looks like my local copy lost when my old hdd broken. So if I will find exact links and they alive, I will write. For now I could only say, I'm very serious, this is not fake or joke.
- hansword 4y ago> after 1940s, military spending's constantly reduced I think your information is incorrect. There was this thing called 'the cold war'. From 1948 on military spending constantly *increased*, when this report was written it was already 200% of the 1948 level. See https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Defense_spending.png https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Defense_spending.p... for a graphic.
- simne 4y agoLook carefully, what you post. This is not accounted inflation and gdp change, which are much larger, than these numbers.