alt Hacker NewsWell, it's not reusable. You're wasting a resource destined for hypersonic deterrence on some sheets of mylar that float around.
I mean, you can do that, but it would be a tremendous embarrassment.
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walrus01 • yesterday at 7:23 AM
> Well, it's not reusable
No it's not. And it's indeed very costly. But on the grand scale of things of what the US DoD spends per day as a fully loaded lifetime cost to operate a single SSN, SSBN or aircraft carrier, it's a drop in the bucket. They spend absurd amounts of funds on all sorts of things.
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missiles shot from fighter jets aren't reusable either, and ships that fire those missiles are as reusable as jets