Senate Committee cuts Navy Laser and Railgun program...

[frigidmagi]

Wired

[quote]The Senate just drove a stake into the Navy’s high-tech heart. The directed energy and electromagnetic weapons intended to protect the surface ships of the future? Terminated.

The Free Electron Laser and the Electromagnetic Railgun are experimental weapons that the Navy hope will one day burn missiles careening toward their ships out of the sky and fire bullets at hypersonic speeds at targets thousands of miles away. Neither will be ready until at least the 2020s, the Navy estimates. But the Senate Armed Services Committee has a better delivery date in mind: never.

The committee approved its version of the fiscal 2012 defense authorization bill on Friday, priced to move at $664.5 billion, some $6.4 billion less than what the Obama administration wanted. The bill “terminatesâ€

[rhoenix]

*incoherent yelling*

That really makes me heated, and I can only really echo Frigid's sentiments above.

There's being "frugal," and then there's being actually fucking smart with the money you spend. Thanks Congress, you're making the military spend money the way you want everyone to believe that you do - with the same well-planned results.

This is a rhetorical question, but why are the people whose families least likely to be in the military the ones making the decisions for the military?

I'm not suggesting the military be its own branch of the government (that would be... a nightmare), but...shit like this should not be political bait.