Originally Posted by Bill8

The cost/benefit of a remote and robotized military is just an interesting side issue. But you did bring it up.

Congress won't touch the manufacture of $70k hellfires. Too much profit margin in weapons systems. Thats what, a 70-to-one margin? $69k profit leaves a lot of bribe/re-election money on the table.

All weapons manufacturing has a similar scale of profit margin. And so much of any weapons system is expendable - made to be used up and replaced.

Thats a lot of government guaranteed profit. The most purely socialistic of all economies.