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by foo1423 4088 days ago
Lolz! Who does not recognize this article as complete propagandistic advertisement for a project completely over in time and budget that even fails competing with its competitors. Just besides that it's a weapon for killing people. Wake up.
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Ragnarork 4088 days ago
That's still interesting technology-wise. I'm clearly not fond of military-related technology in principle, but that's an interesting piece of equipment nonetheless.

What does the context change in this case? That it is (or not) a propagandistic advertisement doesn't change the fact that it's an interesting technology.

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briandear 4088 days ago
Could you argue it's a weapon for saving people? Over 140 Christian students in Kenya were just massacred. An F-35 taking out the perpetrator's training camps could have save a bunch of innocent lives. One of the worst genocides in history (Rwanda) featured machetes being used to hack millions of people to death. How great would an F-35 been against the Nazis? How many millions of people could have been saved?

Weapons aren't evil. Evil is what's evil. Burying one's head in the sand à la Chamberlain led to the extermination of millions. The Khymer Rouge had no advanced weaponry and slaughtered millions.

In Gulf War I, 35,000 total deaths, in no small part because of smarter weapons. An entire country liberated from the Iraqis in just over a month.

How would advanced weaponry have changed the game in wars across history?

Even the Iraq war, which has been one of Anerica's longest has resulted in about 500,000 deaths. In the much shorter WWI it was 16 million deaths.

High tech weapons save lives. Wars will always happen be it with machetes or spears or with billion dollar aircraft systems. A world without war would be nice, but there will always be evil in the hearts of men.

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foo1423 4088 days ago
Seriosly I don't believe in such buls... anymore. Save brave chrisian people. Sorry, but the US has killed and totured so many brave non christian people just for politics and power-- and if you talk about christians - do you remember what a brave christian does when he gets beaten?

this world will not get better as long we don't unite and overcome ancient separation by nation or believe.

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