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The government's response to the security threat of drones has been illogical and negligent at every turn. For example, the Big Beautiful Bill only appropriate
by runlevel1 2mo ago
The government's response to the security threat of drones has been illogical and negligent at every turn.
For example, the Big Beautiful Bill only appropriated $800M for counter-UAV systems. That's insanely low given the broad threat exposure and the fact that they've literally changed what ground combat looks like. For perspective, we spent $400M on the Qatari 747 retrofit and appropriated $400M on the hope that "naval shipbuilding autonomy and AI" might be a thing.