[quickthrower2]

Can you really have a noble mission as a defence company or are you effectively a soldier of sorts, paid to execute the aims of the governments you sell to. You are as moral or possible immoral, as those bosses and same for effectiveness. If your customer does something ineffective with your plane or whatever then it ain’t your mission. Your mission is really to provide great equipment to soldiers. Not to protect America. See the sister ship building comment. It is more like that than protecting democracy.

[Freedom5093]

Yes we have to make users happy. But my mission is to build stuff so that bad stuff doesn't happen: Russia doesn't invade Ukraine or China doesn't invade Taiwan.

It depends on the use case. Some of these startups and unicorns ship (and aim to ship) stuff to Ukraine. That's one conflict most people in the west can align with. Imagine building drones or software for Ukraine. Other use cases involve purely intelligence or decision making.

Sure they're building stuff for Ukraine soldiers, but the underlying mission is freedom for Ukraine.

There are other conflicts (building drones, missiles, tools used in Gaza/Middle East) that are a lot more complex.

Or building drones for police pursuits or for searching buildings (like the IDF).