Even if they were, shut the fuck up about it. You didn’t see a damn thing.

It’s the same as when the Bloodline…I mean Bright Line, hit’s a person. Fault is derived from the persons behavior, and safety protocols between the corporation and the state.

So is there a resale value on these? And what kind of serial number system are they using?

Budgets aren’t a problem right now, because the GoP has been plying the deficits don’t matter game for 40 years. The problem being, that world is now gone. The petro dollar is dying, and our trade supremacy is broken. There will be no growth out of this deficit, we sent it all to other countries. The US is in an open state of collapse right now on every international stage. Iran would love to take the credit for it, but really they’re just the ones who will happen to be standing there as it happens.

They’re not useless, but the days when they could hang off the coast and continue to harass shore targets is gone. It’s a strike and move game now. Drones small enough to launch from the back of a civilian truck, can threaten anything on the water. And sure, you can knock them down, but it’s a numbers game. Every time you down a $20k drone with a half million in ordnance, you lose, regardless of actual damage. Plus stick around too long and you might run out of ammo, or strain your own supply lines and start crashing things like refueling planes.

The problem is that Iran is 3 times the problem of Iraq with 4 times the military. Sure, the US could roll in and lock it down. If we’re willing to get some of our own people killed, and we would, probably a few hundred, maybe a few thousand. And then we’re stuck in a hole bigger than Iraq and Afghanistan combined. But hey, the oil would flow eventually. Not that it would save our economy, that ship already sank.

Buy wait, it can get worse!