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What are you working on? Any new ideas which you're thinking about?
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possiblelion ◴[] No.44420927[source]
After 10 years in defense tech, watching missile attacks in Ukraine and the Middle East made it clear how little most people really get about air defense. So I'm builiding this simulator which drops you into the operator’s seat. You can test out different scenarios and build an air defense network against various types of threats (stats from real world). Also have Ukraine, Israel-Iran scenarios.

https://airdefense.dev/

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1. uka ◴[] No.44422033[source]
Love it. What could be a good addition IMHO is to add approximate costs of the placed systems, and cost of the ammunition used during the simulation ( for both attack and defense ).
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2. WD-42 ◴[] No.44422567[source]
Like the Eisenhower speech. Every missile is 10 new schools, food to feed 100 families for a year, etc.
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3. esseph ◴[] No.44431159[source]
I don't think that's what they meant.

More along the lines of comparing $200 drones to $200,000 missiles. The economics of warfare and asymmetric warfare.

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4. akoboldfrying ◴[] No.44432314{3}[source]
I think they were making a point about the kinds of things that a society can choose to spend its tax dollars on.
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5. esseph ◴[] No.44435812{4}[source]
I find that hard to reconcile given what I was responding to:

"Love it. What could be a good addition IMHO is to add approximate costs of the placed systems, and cost of the ammunition used during the simulation ( for both attack and defense )."

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6. akoboldfrying ◴[] No.44459189{5}[source]
I don't follow, sorry. The comment of yours that prompted my reply was in response to this comment:

> Like the Eisenhower speech. Every missile is 10 new schools, food to feed 100 families for a year, etc.