Sunday, April 16, 2023

The Pentagon Is Spending $145 Billion On Researching And Developing New Weapon Systems

An operational version of the Active Denial System, a military counter-personnel directed energy weapon that is the equivalent of science fiction’s heat ray. (Unlisted USAF personnel/Public domain/ Wikimedia Commons )  

Zero Hedge/Epoch Times: The Disruptive Military Technologies The Pentagon Is Spending Nearly $150 Billion On 

President Joe Biden’s $886.3 billion Fiscal Year 2024 (FY24) defense budget request includes $145 billion for research and development into emerging technologies to create new weapons systems using Artificial Intelligence (AI), hypersonic munitions, and electromagnetic swarms. 

The Department of Defense (DOD) and its subsidiary military branch technology laboratories, working in tandem with universities and high-tech contractors that increasingly include small businesses, have produced such big-ticket splashes as newly deployed directed-energy weapons systems and hypersonic/ballistic sensors.  

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WNU Editor: The discussion on "The Valley Of Death" that every new defense program must face is an eye-opener on how these programs must go through.

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