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        <title><![CDATA[Costs to the military for smart weapons]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Someone does not understand economics. The military has no money. The money comes out of taxpayers pockets. The military merely enjoys playing with the new toys. People back home have to scrape together a living while government is pealing away what could be used for house payments, food, car payments. I know we need new weapons systems but is there anyone out there looking at the money connection between people in high government positions and manufacturers of weapons and weapons research? Yeah, I know I'm paranoid. I've been around long enough and seen enough to deserve my paranoia.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[radiodog4@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2012 11:55:46 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The reality is cheaper solutions never make it past Congress.]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The US Army  developed the simple Compact Kinetic Energy anti tank missile that was far cheaper than the $80,000 to $100,000 per missile TOW missile.The missile was really just a simple hypersonic rocket that relied on speed to destroy a target with brute force applied to a heavy slug of metal.  The missile, with rudimentary guidance systems, was so fast it could hit a target moving at over 50 mph with a simple sighting system.  So little time elapsed between launch and impact that the target did not have time to move even at high speed.Congress shot it down because it was far cheaper to build than TOW meaning smaller kick backs.  The CKE project was killed around the time a $4.4 billion dollar contract for the follow-on TOW missile was passed in 1996.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Hates Idiots]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 04 Oct 2012 13:26:28 -0700</pubDate>
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