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by beambot 934 days ago
"Cost of materials" is small relative to the R&D costs of cutting-edge solutions with military-grade operating parameters...
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And then requisite QC processes during serial manufacturing to ensure that the system will stand up to storage in some bunker for decades before being shipped across the world, abused by late teenaged soldiers as they hump it around some forlorn battlefield and, finally, maybe, used in anger.